Students help rescued pets: Volunteers transport pets, help find homes
Jessica Deegan, News Editor
April 17, 2018
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Imagine an animal shelter with people wrapped around the building… just waiting to surrender their animals. Larissa Gavin, originally from Wisconsin, founded Lola’s Lucky Day: dog rescue in 2015, and took this problem into consideration after understanding the trouble that states like Texas go...
Searching for new sources of antibiotics
Jessica Deegan, News Editor
April 17, 2018
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This is the first semester of many that Madison College will be involved in the search for new sources of antibiotics hidden in soil samples. The biology students who are working hard and applying their knowledge to his search are involved in the Small World Initiative (SWI). Jo Handelsman, who is...
How can CPR stop guns? Santorum’s comments on gun violence protests are way off the mark
Melyna Acosta, Staff Writer
April 17, 2018
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CPR cannot save someone who is bleeding to death from an AR-15 wound. This, unfortunately, is not something that falls under common sense for everyone, even former Republican senators. Rick Santorum, while on the live CNN panel “State Of The Union,” declared that there’s a much more effective...
Can you really boycott Facebook, Google and Apple?
Megan Binkley, Opinions Editor
April 17, 2018
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Over the last few weeks, a number of articles and opinion pieces have popped up about growing antipathy toward Facebook, Google, Apple, and big tech in general. Facebook, already on a downward trend for the last half-decade, was recently involved in a scandal with Cambridge Analytica (a partnership...
Sargent speaks on the luxury item tax of menstrual products
Adrienne Oliva, Editor in Chief
April 17, 2018
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State Rep. Melissa Sargent believes that menstrual products should be free and accessible in all public bathrooms, including the ones at Madison College, because they are a basic public health need. “No one is asking ‘how much does it cost?’ to be providing toilet paper or hand soap in the budgets...
Monks create their artwork in Truax Campus Gateway
Adrienne Oliva, Editor in Chief
April 4, 2018
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Multiple Monks work hours at a time hunched over a black table to create a mandala painting entirely made of sand. They prove their patience for their craft through the scraping of their Chak-purs. They scrape hard enough to assure just a few granules of sand come out at a time to put in the precise...
UW-Stevens Point turns its back on humanities majors
Dylan Martin, Graphic Designer
April 4, 2018
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Perhaps you’ve heard about the latest proposal from the UW school in Stevens Point. After all, it has been grabbing the unassuming central-Wisconsin town some national attention, including making headlines at The Washington Post, but for all the wrong reasons. The school announced a plan to cut...
Students put knowledge to the test during NASA visit last semester
Jessica Deegan, News Editor
April 4, 2018
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When a sporadic opportunity was presented to two of Madison College’s students, they had to go out of their comfort zone, travel across the country and put their knowledge to the test while standing in the intimidating shadow of NASA engineers. Students Andrew Fedosky and Rysa Weigel-Sterr both...
Say Goodbye to Toys ‘R’ Us
Megan Behnke, Staff Writer
April 4, 2018
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After filing for bankruptcy in September 2017, 69-year-old toy giant, Toys ‘R’ Us, is officially closing all of its U.S. stores, including Babies ‘R’ Us. According to Business Insider, “The longer the stores stay open, the more rent Toys ‘R’ Us will owe to its landlords”, only needing...
ACLU visits Truax to talk poetry
Alison Malek, Staff Writer
April 4, 2018
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Madison College’s Yahara Journal hosted an intriguing, hands-on poetry workshop called Politics, Power and Poetry on Wednesday, March 21. To facilitate this workshop, they had invited Angie Trudell-Vasquez, Operations Coordinator for End Domestic Abuse, formerly an ACLU Specialist. This workshop...
Global Village, global mindset
Megan Binkley, Opinions Editor
March 20, 2018
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“Numbers 10, 115, 49, 72, 33, 42, 98, 7. Please stand up and come to the center of the circle.” Eight women rose slowly from the metal folding chairs. The rest of the group —20 other women, and one man — sat in silence in a large circle in a barn. A brisk Arkansas breeze sailed through from...
Speaker Ryan, we want real action
Megan Binkley, Opinions Editor
March 20, 2018
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It’s 7 a.m., and I’m pulling out of my parent’s driveway to head across town to campus, still thinking about the recent shooting in Parkland. My dad waves from our kitchen window. As I drive away, part of me wonders if I just said goodbye to my parents for the last time. During lecture, I have...
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