Gee is the longtime senior pastor of Fountain of Life Church on Madison’s South Side, president and founder of the Nehemiah Center for Urban Leadership Development and its renowned initiative, Justified Anger.
March 22, 2024
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Campus life
With snow forecasted, spring break begins early for some UW-Madison students
Freshman Blake Herman was determined to make it home to Eau Claire. “I’m really happy, excited for a break since we’ve been going nonstop this semester,” he said. ““I thought about the storm a little bit, but I just wanted to get home so bad that I was just gonna push through.”
Protests are intertwined with UW-Madison’s history. Some student groups say current protest policy is unreasonable
When a University of Wisconsin Police Department officer shoved a pro-Palestinian protester to the ground a month ago and detained another, many students and student organizations took to social media to voice their outrage.
LGBTQ spaces help queer UW-Madison students find identity
Explore the spaces where LGBTQ+ students find comfort, community and identity when transitioning to Madison from rural and conservative areas.
How Instagram’s visual ecosystem fuels UW-Madison student advocacy
As Instagram becomes a home for advocacy groups looking to share information on social causes, activists are adapting to nontraditional means of communication. That includes Instagram, a highly visual platform where graphic design aids grassroots organizing.
ASM struggles to reach quorum, permanently tables ‘Hate Speech Isn’t Free’ legislation
Created in response to racist incidents that took place on campus last spring, the legislation called on administrators to remove the phrase “Hate speech is free speech” from first-year instructional materials, and take a more active role in outlining the University’s opposition to hate speech.
Arts & Humanities
‘Message from Our Planet’: An intersection of art, technology, environment
The Chazen’s ‘Message from Our Planet’ transports analog messages to our digital age.
Opinion
Guest column: UW-Madison must watch and learn to make informed statements on political disputes
From major student organizations to individual community members, UW-Madison administrators should pay attention to the needs of those on all ends of political conversations.
Guest column: UW must reconcile past, let community rename Van Hise Hall
UW renaming policy falls short on incorporating community desires.
UW Experts in the News
Frans de Waal, biologist who championed animal intelligence and emotion, dies at 75
“His most influential insights, in my view, can be divided into three areas,” says Strier. The first was that
“nonhuman primates are more thoughtful than we thought, in both their cognitive abilities and in their empathy
and morality,” he says, spurring more ethical treatment of primates. The second: Frans’ “fine-grained observations
of individuals in social groups, powerful experimental and analytical designs, and informative comparisons among
closely-related species” showed the scientific community that a tremendous amount can be observed and
concluded about primates through non-invasive techniques. The third, Streir says, is that “through his work we
have gained new perspectives” on the evolution of our own behavior as humans.
These talkshow hosts once called Trump a bully and an idiot. Now, they’re his biggest defenders
“There’s some evidence that they’re picking up some traction,” said Michael Wagner, a professor of journalism and mass communication at the University of Wisconsin at Madison.
Obituaries
Frans de Waal, who explored empathy among apes, dies at 75
He moved to the United States in 1981 to take a take a position at the Wisconsin National Primate Research Center in Madison and subsequently lectured at the University of Wisconsin. In 1991, he became a research professor at Emory and later was named director of its primate center.
UW-Madison Related
The Very Rich G.O.P. Senate Candidates Bidding for Working-Class Votes
Mr. Hovde was raised in Wisconsin, attended the University of Wisconsin-Madison and counts Madison as his home. But his ties to California will be central to the Democratic case against him.
New director at Madison Public Library: Tana Elias named
She holds a master of library and information studies degree from UW-Madison.