The University of Wisconsin took a tough stand when it decided
to end its licensing agreement with Nike, after complaints arose
regarding the company’s treatment of displaced workers who had been
employed by Honduran factories that make the company’s athletic
wear.
Nine elite Chinese athletes and coaches will be greeted at the Dane County Regional airport Friday night in true UW-Madison fashion - by Bucky Badger and the UW Marching Band.
The athletes will spend the fall semester here as part of the UW-Madison Chinese Champions Program, a formal exchange with Beijing Sports University.
They are world-class competitors in track, speed skating, swimming, table tennis, skiing, curling and gymnastics. Among them is Luo Xuejuan, who earned a gold medal in the breaststroke in the 2004 summer Olympics in Athens.
The new look is cleaner and easier to read then previous versions. Web design nerds (like ourselves) will be happy to know that the new layout utilizes the 960 Grid System which makes the best use of space on modern computer monitors and standardizes content.
Additionally, social media outlets are more prominent (Facebook, twitter, YouTube, etc).
If you want a drink of water on the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point campus this fall, don't expect to find any bottles for sale.
The university's new vending contract, which will go into effect before the school year starts in September, bans bottled water sales in campus vending machines. The 30 or so beverage machines also will switch to aluminum cans for soft drinks, cutting additional use of plastic. Only beverages which don't come in other materials, such as sports drinks, still will be sold in plastic bottles.
The University of Wisconsin System offered a $245,000 per year position to Wisconsin Department of Administration secretary Michael Morgan without requesting his resume, records show.
In an effort to raise awareness of astrobiology research on the UW-Madison campus, members of the Wisconsin Astrobiology Research Consortium (WARC) will set up interactive science stations and hand out "extremophile" trading cards prior to Friday night's Madison Mallards baseball game at Warner Park.
Additionally, Jake Lloyd, who portayed young Anakin Skywalker in The Phantom Manace, will be on hand as well for Astrobiology Night.
Wisconsin's perennial college student, Johnny Lechner, leaves Wisconsin today for the greener pastures of California (at least according to his Facebook and blog entries).
Lechner, who has been attending UW-Whitewater since 1994 (a year before a started college there), transferred to an unnamed college on the west coast to pursue his acting career while still clinging to the one thing that makes him famous: he's been an undergrad for 16 years.
Love him or hate him, one has to admit that Johnny's antics and self-promotion skills are amazing (the man once insisted that people refer to him as JohnnyLechner.com as means to promote his website). I wonder if Johnny will realize that happy cows do not come from California, they come from Wisconsin and just happen to MOVE out west.
After years of papers, exams and academic endeavors, UW-Whitewater’s largest graduating class was done at last. Finally, they were graduates.
“Today is a major milestone in the lives of each of our graduates,” Chancellor Richard Telfer told the class of 2010 on Saturday. “You should all be extremely proud of your accomplishments.
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