SSFC approves Latine Student Union, Adventure Learning Programs budget.
SSFC hears F.H. King Students for Sustainable Agriculture, Wisconsin Black Student Union budgets
Badger Herald
November 3, 2022
Campus life
ISCC kicks off Native November with annual feast
Badger Herald
’Too often Indigenous peoples are seen as part of history, and not as our classmates, professors or colleagues on campus,’ MSC Assistant Director says.
Student organizations pull out all the stops to turn out UW-Madison vote, some students remain unconvinced
Daily Cardinal
The student vote at the University of Wisconsin-Madison has the power to dictate the scope of politics on local, state and national levels. Student groups across campus are determined to promote student voter registration and turnout, but despite their efforts, some students remain unenthused and unconvinced.
Bascom Hill packed once again with flamingos as Fill the Hill returns
Daily Cardinal
Every October, Bascom Hill is filled with bright pink flamingos as part of an initiative called Fill the Hill, which celebrates a new wave of donations to the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Christian protesters spread homophobic messages on Library Mall
Daily Cardinal
Dean of Students Christina Olstad watched over the speakers and protestors alongside other UW administrators and UWPD officers.
Crime and safety
UW-Madison student charged with sexually assaulting other students
WKOW-TV 27
Robert Joehnk, 21, of Madison appeared in Dane County Court Wednesday on a misdemeanor disorderly conduct charges and two counts of misdemeanor fourth-degree sexual assault.
UW Experts in the News
Whatever happened to the common cold vaccine?
Popular Science
“Considering there are more than 100 types of A and B rhinoviruses,” notes Yury Bochkov, a respiratory virus specialist at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health, “you would have to put all 100 types in one vial of vaccine in order to enable protection” against just A and B rhinoviruses. Add in all the C rhinovirus types (more than 50), then cram in RSV’s virus types (more than 40), and that same vaccine would have to be packed with more than 200 strains. Even then, it would only offer protection against about two-thirds of all common colds. “That was considered the major obstacle in development of those vaccines,” Bochkov says.
Save Countless Human Lives. Vaccinate Birds.
Rolling Stone
The trick is to develop a bird vaccine that works for a long time even as the virus mutates. Adel Talaat, a professor of pathobiological sciences at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, is developing a so-called “nanovaccine” that blends tiny particles of several different bird flu strains.
‘It’s impacting everyone’: Voters, clerks adjust to new election rules after litigation surge
Wisconsin State Journal
In state courts across the country, there were 143 election-related lawsuits in 2018, 203 in 2020 and 272 in 2022, according to the preliminary findings of UW-Madison law professor and State Democracy Research Initiative co-director Miriam Seifter along with staff attorney Adam Sopko.
“An election litigation deluge may undermine voter confidence in the electoral system,” Seifter and Sopko wrote in media outlet The Conversation. “Litigation over every detail of the election process lays the groundwork for false narratives or subsequent challenges to the validity of an election.”
Dane County ballot abortion question an example of ‘misleading’ advisory referendums, UW law expert says
WISC-TV 3
According to University of Wisconsin-Madison Law Professor Howard Schweber, “it makes it sound as though the law that’s being tested has no exceptions whatsoever. So it’s misleading.”
UW-Madison Related
Liberals rage after New York Times reports on Biden’s ‘verbal fumbles’: ‘Trying to destroy us’
Fox News
University of Wisconsin-Madison professor Mark Copelovitch blasted Haberman and Baker for the piece. He tweeted, “1. ‘Excuse me,’ he said, ‘the war in Ukraine.’ 2. Beau very well may have died of brain cancer due to Iraq burn pit exposure. 3. ‘More pronounced’…were you not alive in the 1980s/90s/00s to hear Biden?”He continued, saying, “4. Most of them haven’t been gaffes” and added, “5. Grow up.”
Wisconsin man who wore Hitler costume for Halloween fired from Madison Children’s Museum
AP
The museum said the man believed he was making a mockery of the Nazi Party’s leader when he wore the costume on a busy street near the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus on Saturday. He was fired Tuesday night, after his costume was condemned on social media and by some news outlets, including the Jerusalem Post.