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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.”

UW, Madison pursue efforts to make housing market more accessible

Badger Herald

Each fall, University of Wisconsin students throw themselves into the battle for their next house or apartment. Simultaneously, students on campus contemplate various routes they can take to not only lock down a room but to make living cheaper for themselves.

According to a 2023 Housing Snapshot Report on the City of Madison, demand exceeds supply when it comes to housing, rendering prices unaffordable to the median renter household. Throw tuition into the mix and students who become overwhelmed by finding affording housing may feel the need to get creative. Students may resort to alternative and unfavorable methods to make housing prices more manageable.

Track alums urge UW-Madison athletics to reconsider Shell replacement

The Cap Times

A group of UW-Madison alumni and other supporters say the university’s track and field and cross country programs shouldn’t be cast aside to bolster the football team, though.

“There’s absolutely no reason that it has to be one over the other,” said Heidi Kalsen, who competed as a long jumper and sprinter at UW-Madison from 1999 to 2003.

Rapper and UW-Madison alum Yung Gravy leads hundreds of students from a club to the polls in Madison

Milwaukee Journal Sentinel

Spotted Cow in hand, Yung Gravy marched hundreds of students from a club to the polls at his alma mater, the University of Wisconsin-Madison, Wednesday. The tongue-in-cheek rapper got his start during his time as a student there.

“We’re going to party to the polls, baby,” Gravy — in a red Wisconsin T-shirt with an “I voted” sticker on it — said in a video he shared to his Instagram Story as a crowd cheered behind him.