UW Madison could lose federal funding if it violates a new executive order from President Donald Trump. Trump has expressed concern about free speech on college campuses after several high profile conservative speakers were shouted down by protesters in recent years. He signed the executive order at the White House accompanied by university students from […]
Split Show: Grad Worker Sit-In and Toni Morrison Documentary
Earlier this afternoon, graduate workers from the Teaching Assistants’ Association (TAA) occupied the University of Wisconsin–Madison’s administration building to demand fair pay and improved policies for graduate employees. For the first segment of today’s show, TAA representatives Megan Kennedy and Ellen LeClere report live from the sit-in at Bascom Hall to explain the graduate workers’ […]
Madison in the Sixties – The Black Studies Strike, Part 4
Madison, February 27 1969 – an hour of destruction brings the UW Black Studies Strike to a close. Through ten days of campus obstruction and disruption, strikers had been careful to avoid vandalism. And it looked like they had won their major objective, with a committee vote recommending the UW establish a Black Studies Department. […]
Madison in the Sixties – The Black Studies Strike, Part 3
Fifty years ago this week, the Black Studies Strike reached a turning point. Saturday, February 15, a petition supporting the university administration “in its refusal to surrender to mob pressure and lawless force, in its determination to continue normal educational activities, in its efforts to deal with problems, including those involving the disadvantaged members of […]
Human Activity Could Bring Climate Back 50 Million Years
What did the planet feel like 3 million years ago? Well, most of us alive today might find out. UW-Madison geography professor Jack Williams’ study published this week shows that by 2030, the earth’s climate will resemble the pliocene — the dawn of human evolution, when the climate looked starkly different than it does now. […]
UW-Madison Announces Cultural Center “Startup Spaces”
UW-Madison will officially open the Latinx Cultural Center and the Asian Pacific Islander Desi American (APIDA) Cultural Center in 2019 following remodeling plans this winter. These will become the university’s third and fourth cultural centers, after the Black Cultural Center and the American Indian Student and Cultural Center. They’ll be in the Red Gym on Langdon […]
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