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Billionaire Liberal Comes to Wisconsin to Topple Walker

AP

Steyer is an environmental activist from California who spent more than $90 million on Democratic and liberal causes in the 2016 campaign. Through his youth organizing group NextGen Rising, Steyer plans to spend $30 million in 10 states, including Wisconsin, to help Democrats win this year. Steyer visited Marquette University and the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

How ‘Deaf President Now’ Changed America

Pacific Standard

Roberta Cordano, the current president of Gallaudet, was just the 17th Deaf person in U.S. history to be accepted to law school. She went to the University of Wisconsin–Madison and was on spring break and back home in St. Paul, Minnesota, during Deaf President Now.

First, he chronicled history. Then, he made history.

The Times Picayune

The young Ambrose initially considered following in his father’s footsteps, but he decided to change course after taking an American history class at the University of Wisconsin.Ambrose earned his bachelor’s degree in history at Wisconsin, then moved on the Louisiana State University for his master’s. He would return to Wisconsin for his doctorate.

Patrick Korten, former WTOP reporter, anchor, dies at age 70

Washington Times
Born March 17, 1948, in Neenah, Wisconsin, Mr. Korten was the son of Margaret A. (O’Grady) and John S. Korten. He graduated from Homestead High School in Mequon, Wisconsin, in 1966, and attended the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where he majored in political science. He was a co-founder and the first editor-in-chief of the Badger Herald, an independent student newspaper.

 

DNR Staff Felt Pressure To Approve Wetland Fill For Frac Sand Mining Project

Wisconsin Public Radio

Meteor Timber attorney John Behling was also in contact with high ranking DNR officials. Behling, who is also president of the University of Wisconsin System Board of Regents, reached out to former DNR Deputy Secretary Kurt Thiede after being frustrated by lower level staff. Behling told WPR it was important to engage the agency at all levels during a permitting process in which he submitted more than 5,000 pages of information.

Costs Increase For Eau Claire Performing Arts Center

Wisconsin Public Radio

On Thursday, a detailed budget was released that showed the project needed an additional $15 million for things like audio-visual equipment and furnishings. Recently hired Executive Director Jason Jon Anderson said the previous fundraising focus had been on securing the $45 million needed for construction of the facility, which will host two theaters along with classrooms for the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire and community use.

Cecil Taylor, Pianist Who Defied Jazz Orthodoxy, Is Dead at 89

The New York Times

There was no academy for what Mr. Taylor did, and partly for that reason he became one himself, teaching for stretches in the 1970s at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, and at Antioch College in Ohio. (He was given an honorary doctorate by the New England Conservatory in 1977.) Not until the mid-1970s, Mr. Lyons told the writer John Litweiler, did the Cecil Taylor Unit have enough work that the musicians could make a living from it — mostly in Europe.

Trump’s Man on Campus

Politico Magazine

One successful candidate Turning Point USA backed was Max Goldfarb, who ran for a student panel at the University of Wisconsin that oversees disbursement of student fees. After Goldfarb won, he pushed in a committee hearing to defund the university’s Muslim Students Association. Another committee member objected, suggesting Goldfarb was bringing his Turning Point USA politics into the issue. In the end, the student panel rejected Goldfarb’s motion to completely defund the MSA, but it did slash the group’s budget.

How to Get In-State Tuition at Out-of-State Colleges

UW News & World Report

Clark says there wasn’t much of a tuition difference between her two top choices: the University of Minnesota—Twin Cities and the University of Wisconsin—Madison. Ultimately, she chose to attend UM—Twin Cities because the school guaranteed her entry into its undergraduate nursing program as long as she maintained a 3.0 in prerequisite courses. UW requires students to apply to its nursing school later in their college careers.

4 Popular European MBA Programs for Americans

US News and World Report

“There’s a strong emphasis on social responsibility and service that I find really attractive,” says Thomas Atwell, 29, who will graduate from the program in May. Atwell, who got his undergrad degree at the University of Wisconsin—Madison, says he also likes the fact that the curriculum is mainly taught through case studies that build in a discussion of the ethical implications of strategies and “what the impact of a particular decision might be on workers or the environment.”

T-Pain’s New University: Wiscansin

Inside Higher Ed

It’s not every university that would boast of being “dead last” in national ratings and having a faculty of 75 “uncertified professors.” But the rapper T-Pain’s new creation, Wiscansin University, isn’t about to challenge the University of Wisconsin or enroll anyone.

Staff at Chicago-based humor site The Onion to unionize

Chicago Tribune

The Onion has been a comedic force since its humble beginnings in 1988 as a student-run publication at the University of Wisconsin at Madison. It grew to national prominence by parodying the gravitas of newspapers with satirical headlines and stories, such as “Drugs Win Drug War.” Money manager David Schafer led a group that bought The Onion in 2001.

Virgil Abloh Biography and Career Timeline

Vogue

2002: Abloh completes his undergraduate degree in civil engineering at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. (In 2015, he would return to design commemorative tees for the university.) Rumor has it that on the day of his graduation, he skips his final critique to take a meeting with Kanye West’s then-manager John Monopoly. West and Abloh begin officially working together soon after.

Hype-meister or ultimate democratiser? What Virgil Abloh’s appointment at Louis Vuitton means for luxury fashion

The Telegraph

After completing a degree in civil engineering at the University of Wisconsin Madison, and a Masters in architecture at the Illinois Institute of Technology, on a course designed by Mies Van der Rohe (which he credits with teaching him the value of a multi disciplinary approach), Abloh worked variously as an intern at Fendi, a DJ- an occupation he still frequently practices- and a design consultant to Kanye West, for whom he’s produced everything from stage sets to merchandise.

Illinois Nazi wins GOP primary for Congress

Boing Boing

Republican Party was unable to draft a candidate against Holocaust denier Arthur Jones, and now he’s won the Republican primary in Illinois’ Third Congressional District. Jones is a former member of the American Nazi Party and, as a student at the University of Wisconsin, founded a conservative newspaper and was active in the Young Republicans and a Nationalist Socialist student group.

Is Running Bad For You?

POPSUGAR

Monica Lam-Feist, fitness lead at AlgaeCal, ACE certified personal trainer, and former University of Wisconsin-Madison varsity soccer player, gave POPSUGAR her personal rules of staying safe and active as a runner, noting that if you’re running to improve your health, you don’t need to run more than 50 minutes each week to maximize the health benefits.

Holder campaigns for Dallet, GOP files complaint

Star Tribune

Former U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder is continuing his two-day swing through Wisconsin to help motivate voters to support Rebecca Dallet for state Supreme Court.Holder was in Milwaukee on Thursday and on Friday he plans to host a forum on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus.

Holder coming to Wisconsin ahead of Supreme Court election

Star Tribune

Holder’s group, the National Democratic Redistricting Committee, announced Tuesday that he plans to participate in a discussion Thursday in Milwaukee hosted by Black Leaders Organizing for Communities.On Friday, Holder is joining college students and activists on the campus of the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Dallet is not scheduled to attend either event.

Google’s Quantum Computing Party Is as Fancy as Physics Gets

Wired

“IBM commissioned a cocktail called ‘gin entanglement,’” said Edward Leonard of the University of Wisconsin-Madison, referring to one of the mechanisms by which qubits compute in a quantum computer. But, you know, with elderflower liqueur instead of superconducting circuits. “It was good,” he said. “A lot like a gin and tonic.”

Holder to Wisconsin to pump judge race

Politico

Holder, President Barack Obama’s former attorney general, will do three events across Thursday and Friday, in Milwaukee and Madison. There won’t be explicit campaign rallies: instead he’ll do a roundtable discussion with Black Leaders Organizing for Communities on his first stop, then head to the state capital for a Friday discussion on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus to talk about activism and engagement in this year’s elections.