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The Clarion

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The Clarion

Station 8, the one nearest Madison College, has a logo proclaiming the station “The Beast of the East,”

City fire station logos blaze their own way

Bailey Ayres, Sports Editor March 22, 2017

All but two Madison Fire Department stations have individualized logos that reflect their neighborhood and community history. Cynthia Schuster, the Public Information Officer for the Madison Fire Department,...

China Miller helps a student at the after school Level Up Homework Club.

Madison College student China Miller starts homework club

Alison Ahlgrim, News Editor March 1, 2017

In a community room at the Fitchburg Fire House, a dozen kids talk excitedly, work on writing compositions, draw colorful posters, and eat fruit snacks and animal crackers. In the midst of the excitement,...

Members of the Volunteer Center pose with their Action Program of the Year Award.

Service Learning Academy wins action award

Jessica Pokrandt, Staff Writer March 1, 2017

On Feb. 15, the six board members of the Volunteer Center set off to St. Louis for the 2017 IMPACT National Conference, the largest national gathering of student leaders and faculty of programs such as...

Local chef Tory Miller offers advice and stories during ‘Chef Series’

Alison Ahlgrim, News Editor March 1, 2017

Local celebrity chef and James Beard Award-winner Tory Miller spoke and did a cooking demo in front of about 50 people as part of the Madison College Center for Entrepreneurship’s “Chef Series” on...

Madison College women’s basketball player Rachel Slaney goes in for a basket against Milwaukee Area Technical College.

3 earn honors for women’s basketball

Clarion Staff Report March 1, 2017

After splitting with Joliet Junior College during the regular season, the sixth-ranked Madison College women’s basketball team knew it would be facing a challenge in the semifinals of the NJCAA Region...

Food is a Human Right: Cutting FoodShare benefits simply punishes people for being poor

Alison Ahlgrim, News Editor March 1, 2017

If access to adequate food is a human right recognized by the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, why does Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker think it’s OK to restrict and deny this most basic of human...

A barber-cosmetology student trims a customer's hair in the new TruStyle Salon at the Madison College Truax campus.

New TruStyle salon opens at Truax campus

Sedgwick Smith Jr., Managing Editor February 15, 2017

Madison College’s barber-cosmetology program has a new home in the recently renovated space at the Truax Campus in room B1208L. The program’s TruStyle Salon had its grand opening on Valentine’s Day. The...

Madison College women’s basketball player Rachel Slaney goes in for a basket against Milwaukee Area Technical College.

New Top Scorer: Slaney is new all-time leading scorer for women’s basketball with 1,094 points

Clarion Staff Report February 15, 2017

Rachel Slaney became the new all-time leading scorer for the Madison College women’s basketball team during a 50-point victory over Wilbur Wright College on Feb. 8. Slaney entered the game needing...

A nation founded by immigrants

James Roufus, Staff Writer February 15, 2017

News flash right America: you are all immigrants. No European has been or ever will be a native to this beautiful land we call home. Home: A place you feel most comfortable, at least most of the time....

Facing fear and injustice daily

Sedgwick Smith Jr., Managing Editor February 15, 2017

Fear and injustice are two simple words that plague our existence as black men in America. Fear that we can be gunned down at any moment by a man and the public will accept it based on the color of...

‘Hidden Figures’ details the stories of the 3 women who helped NASA launch a man into space

Carrie Puckette, Copy Editor February 15, 2017

In “Hidden Figures,” the title has a double meaning. Not only are the characters looking for the numbers that will get a man into space, the people responsible for find those numbers have been neglected...

From Wisconsin great to hero of the Super Bowl

Alfred C. Johnson, Staff Writer February 15, 2017

If there was anything Wisconsin could cheer for in this past super bowl, it was former Wisconsin running back James White. The country may not have heard of him, but here in Wisconsin, he was a unforgettable...

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