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Above, Cherif Correa, Iracema Farmer, Afia Yamoah, and Annucia Martins, (left to right), strike a fashionable pose in clothes from Senegal, Angola, Ghana, and Somalia during the African Awareness Panel.

African Student Association hosts African awareness panel

Mouna Algahaithi, News Editor November 10, 2015

If you were on the third floor this Friday, the sound of afro-beats and the smell of Nigerian jollof rice may have distracted you from classwork. After a semester-long lull, the African Student Association...

Retailer REI opts out of Black Friday

Mouna Algahaithi, News Editor November 10, 2015

Planning on buying discounted hiking boots or a backpacker’s bag from REI this Black Friday? Think again. REI has decided to not participate in Black Friday madness this November 27. Black Friday...

Everyone, two legs or four, was welcomed at the Wisconsin Dog Fair.

Alliant Energy Center goes to the dogs

Alyssa Washington, Staff Writer November 10, 2015

The Wisconsin Dog Fair was held on November 1, 2015 at the Alliant Energy Center. At the fair, dogs were allowed to walk around as long as they were on a leash. Information on all types of breeding groups...

Weekly student senate meetings open to all

Ana Bon, Staff Writer November 10, 2015

Every semester a new election takes place for Madison College Senate. There were 16,362 eligible voters as of Fall 2015 and 298 voted, only 1.82 percent of all eligible voters. Nineteen seats take up...

Sunday farmers market to continue next year

Mary Joan Nastri, Staff Writer November 10, 2015

As we near the end of the season for the famed Dane County Saturday farmer’s market on the square in downtown Madison, a smaller Sunday market, also on the square, is finishing up for the 2015 season...

November is National Novel Writing Month

Autumn Hall-Tun, Librarian November 10, 2015

Welcome to November! At this point in the semester, most of you are probably gearing up for papers that will soon be due, trying to keep up with homework and maybe looking forward to Thanksgiving break....

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Public Safety Announcement Nov. 10th

Sgt. Joe Steffen November 10, 2015

Public Safety Officers respond to many calls for service and we communicate our activities to the college community. Here are some of the notable incidents from this past month. On Oct. 28, Public...

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Panelists discuss equity in Wisconsin education

Mouna Algahaithi, News Editor November 10, 2015

Institutionalized racism is the root of which the “achievement gap” thrives on. This term doesn’t insinuate that most individuals in the United States are racist, but rather that government policies...

Emmalee Pearson has been a visual communications instructor since 2012.

From metal singer to teacher

Ana Bon, Staff Writer October 29, 2015

Visual Communication alumnus and current instructor, Emmalee Pearson remembers how she got her start teaching at Madison College. “I went from metal singer to teacher,” Pearson joked. “ I started...

Planned Parenthood’s mission is often misunderstood. A Planned Parenthood clinic is located near campus at 3760 Orin Road.

Planned Parenthood’s primary focus is providing comprehensive sex education

Brighid Monahan, Staff Writer October 29, 2015

Care. No matter what. That is the mission statement for Planed Parenthood of Wisconsin.  With such a profound slogan as this, you would be surprised by how much people oppose this idea.  The Madison...

A worker with a skid loader clears away fencing and wooden debries from the dilapidated tennis courts at the Truax campus.

Removal of tennis court ‘eyesore’ at Truax

Nicolas LaMorte, Editor in Chief October 29, 2015

Many may have questions about plans for the old tennis court off Wright Street. At the beginning of the month students arrived to the Truax campus to find the tennis court being stripped of its fencing....

Help for students in non-traditional occupations

Jessica Ayala, Staff Writer October 28, 2015

Masaya Xiong is the non-traditional occupations advisor at Madison College. Non-traditional careers are defined as those in which less than 25 percent of the workforce is of one gender. Xiong’s office...

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