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UVA faculty, students protest campus culture following Rolling Stone expose of fraternity gang rape

Capital Times

Concerns over handling of sexual assault reports at UW-Madison prompted students and faculty to join a national day of action last month demanding better practices in responding to reports of sexual assault on campus, the Daily Cardinal reported. … UW-Madison is considering changes to its procedures for investigating reports of sexual assault on campus, the Cardinal reported.

Analiese Eicher: Progressives should follow Pocan and lead on student loan debt reform

Capital Times

There is no doubt that supporting student debt reform is good politics for Rep. Pocan, whose congressional district is anchored in Madison and features the state’s flagship public university. But it is also a smart for progressives in Wisconsin and nationally, with 40 million Americans, including nearly 1 million Wisconsinites, directly affected by student loan debt that now exceeds $1.2 trillion.

UW System names Milwaukee chancellor finalists

Madison.com

The finalists are Gail Hackett, provost and executive vice chancellor for academic affairs at the University of Missouri-Kansas City; Mark Mone, UW-Milwaukee’s interim chancellor; and William “Mike” Sherman, senior vice president and provost and chief operating officer at the University of Akron.

Know Your Madisonian: Henry Sapoznik

Wisconsin State Journal

For several decades, Sapoznik has worked to unearth klezmer music, archive it, and bring it to the public. For those efforts, Sapoznik — director of UW-Madison’s Mayrent Institute for Yiddish Culture — was named one of the Jewish Daily Forward’s “2014 Forward 50.”

NFL stars, former Badgers players react to Melvin Gordon’s unprecedented rushing performance

Capital Times

Gordon’s stat line in the Badgers’ 59-24 victory at Camp Randall Stadium will go down in college football lore: 25 carries, 408 yards, four touchdowns. No one has ever rushed for more yards in a Football Bowl Subdivision game, and the player whose record Gordon beat by two yards was among the first to send along congratulations through Twitter.

UW lab animal chief cries ‘foul’ over activist tactics to expose monkey care violations

Capital Times

Anyone interested (in) the use of animals in research at UW-Madison can now go to its animal research page and read about incidents involving the escape of 36 primates, deaths of three monkeys and burning of another that brought four citations this fall for failing to comply with USDA standards. But that’s only because of the work of an Ohio-based animal rights group with tactics that Eric Sandgren, director of UW’s Research Animal Resources Center, says are “inappropriate.”

Curran, Connie R.

Madison.com

Connie was a current member of the UW Foundation board and a distinguished alumna of the year for the School of Nursing. She was an active supporter of the school, endowing a student scholarship and funding Curran Commons, a student gathering-area in the new the school’s new facility.

$100 million gift by John and Tashia Morgridge largest ever by single donor to UW-Madison

Madison.com

Since taking over as UW-Madison chancellor in July 2013, Rebecca Blank has repeatedly stressed the need for significantly more money to attract and keep top professors and researchers. Saturday, the focus on faculty pay got a massive infusion of hope and dollars, with a $100 million gift announced from John and Tashia Morgridge.

Wisconsin Singers are a study in show business

Wisconsin State Journal

The young adults who make up the Wisconsin Singers — a show group that travels the state, entertaining audiences with high-energy singing, dancing and polished showmanship — all have full-time commitments as UW-Madison students. Their majors range from education to bioengineering.

Emmerich, Joan McCann

Madison.com

Joan worked at the University of Wisconsin Hospital in Madison for 36 years as a medical technologist and laboratory supervisor.

UW-Madison music professor Richard Davis: Prisoners are the new slaves

Capital Times

Don’t get mired in the enormity of trying to calculate how to make reparations to African-Americans for past centuries of slavery, Jim Crow segregation and discrimination, says a prominent UW-Madison professor. Instead, says Richard Davis, renowned bassist and professor of music, take the opportunity to make amends for the segregation and discrimination that marks American life today.

Tom Oates: Avoiding pro distractions paramount for UW men’s basketball team

Madison.com

Through-the-roof expectations aren’t the only new obstacle the University of Wisconsin men’s basketball team must overcome if it wants to return to the NCAA Final Four. Other potential distractions can be seen every day at practice, sitting quietly up in the seats, notebooks in hand. Indeed, NBA scouts have been regular visitors to the Kohl Center during UW’s preseason workouts, lured by likely first-round draft picks Frank Kaminsky and Sam Dekker.