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UW-Madison Hoofer Ski and Snowboard Club hosts 60th ski swap

WMTV - Channel 15

The annual outdoor recreation equipment sale provides the opportunity for the community to buy discounted items for all ages for the upcoming season — including downhill and nordic skis, snowboards, boots, jackets, helmets, goggles, touring gear and telemark skis — while also offering community members the chance to sell their new and gently used gear.

UW professors fear proposed copyright policy would lead to ‘massive seizing’ of their work

Milwaukee Journal Sentinel

For decades, University of Wisconsin faculty have operated under a simple guarantee. They are state employees, but they own and control the products of their work, including syllabi, assignments and other course materials.

This understanding, however, could be upended. The UW System is proposing a new copyright policy that professors say would eliminate faculty ownership of instructional materials. The revisions are stoking alarm among professors statewide who say such a move would cheapen higher education into a mass-produced commodity.

UW reinstates Sex WIse module after negotiations

Badger Herald

While the module has now been reinstated, Runde said some content, particularly around the discussion of pornography, was shortened as part of the compromise reached with the administration. Runde said they were unsatisfied with some of the compromises, citing a disconnect between UW administrators and students’ experiences on and off campus.

TAA launches bioscience graduate worker campaign

Daily Cardinal

The University of Wisconsin-Madison graduate assistant’s union, the Teaching Assistant Association, launched a campaign to improve working conditions for graduate student workers in bioscience departments including genetics and microbiology.

Uncommon Ground: Students find civil debate forum in Library Mall

Badger Herald

Conservative students sometimes come up to College Democrat’s table to disagree, but they always have a civil conversation, Schanhofer said. UW College Republicans Chair Thomas Pyle said his organization frequently collaborates with College Democrats. “I think we have a great relationship with College Democrats right now,” Pyle said. “… I would love to see more of that in the real political world out there … We don’t need to hate our political opponents.”

Erin Warner is on a mission to find UW-Madison students off-campus homes

Wisconsin State Journal

Erin Warner is a Badger mom who learned the hard way how difficult the housing market can be to navigate.

Years ago, before Warner became the off-campus housing specialist for UW-Madison’s University Housing Division, her own daughter found herself accidentally locked into two different off-campus housing leases. It took months to resolve.

UW-Madison student protests were larger in the 1960s and 1970s. Why?

Daily Cardinal

Kacie Lucchini Butcher, director of the Rebecca M. Blank Center for Campus History, told The Daily Cardinal the reason for this may lie in direct impact. “With the war in Vietnam, people’s friends were dying,” Lucchini Butcher said. “I think there was a sense of urgency to those protests that made people feel as though they wanted to get involved.”

VIDEO Trump vs. Harris: Madison voters’ thoughts

Wisconsin Examiner

With early voting underway and only six days until Election Day, on the streets around the State Capitol and on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus, we asked people who they want to become the next president of the United States and what are the issues that matter to them.

UW-Madison librarian brings medical history to life

Wisconsin State Journal

Micaela Sullivan-Fowler, a librarian at UW-Madison’s Ebling Library for Health Services, has culled nearly 30,000 such ads from 1923 to 2007 into the digital Health Advertisements Database from Ebling Sources, or HADES. Former colleague Amanda Lambert and several students helped her compile the database, which continues to grow.

Q&A: ‘We’re seven days away from making history’: Actor Adam Brody rallies UW-Madison voters

The Daily Cardinal

Actor Adam Brody, known for his role as Seth Cohen on the Fox series “The O.C” and most recently as Noah on “Nobody Wants This,” hosted a student meet-and-greet on behalf of the Harris-Walz campaign in Madison on Sunday, where he spoke about Madison’s pivotal role in what he called “a historical election.”