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UW students vote for fees for major union projects

UW-Madison students want to preserve the past and build for the future.

While only 6.6 percent of the student body voted in the Associated Students of Madison fall election last week, the electors overwhelmingly approved raising student fees to pay for a major renovation of Memorial Union and replacement of Union South.

But another referendum that passed, to bump student wages up to a “living wage” level, could hit a roadblock in the chancellor’s office.