Fearless Sifting

I’ve been having some issues with my hosting service over the past couple of days, the servers have been down quite a bit. I’m in the process of getting the blog hosted in a different place. Hopefully it will be completed within the next couple of days.

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In light of all of the recent criticism of ASM. I think there has been at least one positive development in recent days. Something Verbose already beat me to posting about it, but ASM Chair Brittany Wiegand has started her own blog. As she explains in her opening post:

So, I am starting a blog. Although [...]

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From Alison Page, Democrat running for the 10th district Senate seat:
She stressed more support for higher education, saying university professors and administrators are “being raided and lured elsewhere” in the country.
“The UW-System is the crown jewel of our state. It’s a treasure to be maintained. The number of college degrees a state produces drives the [...]

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Despite uncertainty earlier this week, Blue Band members will play at Saturday’s football game at the University of Wisconsin, a Wisconsin official said Tuesday.
But Penn State’s 17-member pep band could be the only band at Camp Randall Stadium on Saturday …
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Blue Band Director Richard Bundy said despite the pep band’s smaller size, its members are [...]

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They made every argument I would have.
Supposedly, the reforms were made to respond primarily to serious crimes such as sexual assault or battery, but the new code states the university may act whenever a student “demonstrates a pattern of behavior that seriously impairs the university’s ability to fulfill its teaching, research or public-service missions.” [...]

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A regent involved in the failed University of Wisconsin-Parkside chancellor search says he and his colleagues routinely lack enough information to make good hiring decisions.
Regent Michael Falbo says regent committees recommend who to hire for top campus jobs after interviewing the finalists for about 45 minutes each. He says that’s not enough to make informed [...]

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Today’s DC Ed Board piece on the ASM constitutional reforms has it all backwards.
Another major concern with the current state of ASM was poor communication with students—and as a result, student apathy toward ASM. If last night’s session, where only a dozen students were present, is any indicator, student interest in governance on campus is [...]

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