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Sent in my applications for law school last night. Now just waiting on transcripts and I need to fill out a residency form. Cowgirl: Wisconsin made the cut!
Congratulations!
though I also need to ask if you've been paying attention to the news here this week........
You do understand that intramural teams have been around since long before you were in school and they don't use the same names every year, right?
http://host.madison.com/news/local/article_409c5080-26cb-5a11-875f-42715b0a523b.html There are a lot of budget cuts. The link isn't working at the moment.
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No ****. Every team comes up with a name and a jersey. Last year we were let's get tropical.
Here is a summary from a friend of mine:
Take the choice somewhere else. Anywhere else. If this proposal passes, WI will have sliced $550 million (half a billion dollars!) from its university system since 2011. Tuition rates will go through the roof in a few years, since no legal ceiling will exist anymore and state funding will be eviscerated.
Take the choice somewhere else. Anywhere else. If this proposal passes, WI will have sliced $550 million (half a billion dollars!) from its university system since 2011. Tuition rates will go through the roof in a few years, since no legal ceiling will exist anymore and state funding will be eviscerated.
I don't want this to go all political so fair warning. The Governor is proposing two more years of tuition hike freezes (this would make it a total of four) while cutting $300 million from the university system to cover a budget shortfall created by his own tax cuts. And literally told the faculty to "work more". There is a lot of talk of layoffs and reduced class offerings. The budget still needs to be passed (and there is bipartisan opposition to this) but they have already implemented a hiring freeze and moratorium on out of state travel.
That last sentence is very important. In 2017, when the current proposed freeze ends, the university would no longer need to get their tuition hikes approved. So they could raise it as much and as often as they wish - which they will need to do after the cuts in funding and years of not raising tuition. Call me cynical, but this feels very much like trying to buy them off for a couple of years until we are through the Presidential elections and the Governor can claim to have corrected a budget shortfall without raising taxes. Ignoring what caused it. Though the comments about working seemed to really **** off the UW administration - their comments indicated lukewarm support earlier in the week.......that has changed over the past two days.
yeah and that's an issue. I LOVED Wisconsin and Madison, but that decision is definitely not a plus (to put it lightly)
If I remember they all agreed it was a political move, will hurt the university, and then they made fun of politicians. It didn't really go into a debate or anything.
Something for future university workers to think about.
I'm hopeful that it will not be passed in its current state. Madison will be fine, but this would be devastating to the smaller UW schools that are in more R areas. So those representatives are already fighting because they don't want their town's largest employer to start cutting jobs. Heck, my company and all our competitors work with Madison's research people all the time. If they lose funding for projects, it hurts us too.
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