UW-Madison students lobby Chancellor for snow day via Twitter
Posted on December 10, 2009 and seen 999 times
...But Wednesday was the first time that classes were canceled since 1990, when Donna Shalala, who was chancellor at the time, shut them down at 10:30 a.m. because 17 inches of snow had fallen over a 16-hour period.
“Students began lobbying the Chancellor Biddy Martin last night on Twitter and then began thanking her on Twitter, too,” Mr. Lucas said.
According to one of the university’s student newspapers, The Badger Herald, students began celebrating Tuesday night with snowball fights. Lindsay Shaw, a junior, said she was “overwhelmed with joy” at the announcement, telling the newspaper: “I’m just looking at this as a mental health day.”
via nytimes.com
