Monica Kim is an associate professor and UW-Madison’s William Appleman Williams & David G. and Marion S. Meissner Chair in U.S. International and Diplomatic History. Her research breaks down U.S. intervention tactics throughout the 20th century. She also authored “The Interrogation Rooms of the Korean War: The Untold History.”
The student leader of the College Republicans chapter at the University of Wisconsin-La Crosse resigned from her post this week after group members scrawled an antisemitic message on a campus sidewalk and promoted it on social media.
UW-La Crosse is at least the second Wisconsin school to be hit with antisemitic messages this school year.
UW Herbarium home to over 1.37 million plant species.
In response to the upcoming event, the Gender and Sexuality Campus Center is offering space for folks to be in community on the day Walsh comes to campus. “We recognized the impact and thought to offer space that would counteract erasure, isolation, and ostracization; in turn, we crafted space for students to cultivate belonging and encounter affirming narratives,” Warren Scherer said in an email statement to The Badger Herald.
Senator Ron Johnson and Lt. Governor Mandela Barnes faced off Thursday night during the TMJ4 Senate Debate. The debate was broadcast across the state and the country.
At UW-Madison, the Tommy G. Thompson Center on Public Leadership hosted a debate watch party for students. About two dozen students showed up and were engaged for the entire debate.
Quoted: “I think it’s fear about the other side winning. Democrats are so eager to have Ron Johnson out of office. They have seen him move in a more radical direction and in favor of the kind of style of governing that Trump was engaged in,” said Barry Burden, a political science professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. “Barnes is, I think, raising concern among Republicans who don’t want to see what they view as a radical agenda come to Washington.”
Quoted: David Canon, a political science professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, told us by email that it’s not uncommon for a candidate to shift positions after winning a primary or so close to a general election.
“Michels clearly has switched his position on abortion, saying that he would sign a bill with exceptions for rape and incest (after previously saying he did not support exceptions),” Canon said. “We are seeing this all over the country with candidates moving more to the center for the general election.”
An 18-year-old was charged Thursday with sexual assault for allegedly slapping a woman while on part of the UW-Madison campus last month.
Now, almost 20 years later and with his own tattoo shop, Siewert is offering pre-designed cancer ribbon tattoos throughout October and has pledged to donate all the profits to the UW Health Carbone Cancer Center’s Medical Oncology Clinic, in his mother’s memory.
Hurricane Ian, a Category 4 storm that packed winds of 150 mph, barreled into Southwest Florida Sept. 28, leaving many communities in the region like Chaney’s noted hometown of Cape Coral devastated.
“If you are in a period like we’re in right now, where majority control flips back and forth every few years, then (abolishing the filibuster) absolutely could be a source of policy instability,” UW-Madison political science professor David Canon said.
Noted: Escaping life on the family farm, he took that interest with him to the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where he was a Goldwater Republican who could happily mingle with radicals on marches for civil rights. He majored in history and stayed on for a law degree.
Former Journal Times Editor Peter D. Fox is among distinguished industry leaders who will be inducted into the Wisconsin Newspaper Hall of Fame by the Wisconsin Newspaper Association Foundation on Thursday, Nov. 10, at The Madison Club, 5 E. Wilson St.
As an undergraduate attending the University of Wisconsin-Madison, Fox served as a part-time copy editor for the Wisconsin State Journal, joining the paper full time during graduate school.
