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Our Wisconsin survey results show progress in cultural awareness By Kayla Huynh SENIOR STAFF WRITER
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University Health Services’ trans health model will provide students direct access to medical treatment.
Transgender care will see ‘affirmative’ shift under new UHS model By Sammy Gibbons FEATURES EDITOR
In addition to worrying about roommate assignments, meal plans and class choices, perspective transgender, non-binary and gender non-conforming students routinely worry about resources regarding medical care available at UW-Madison before arriving on campus. In the past, students have chosen UW-Madison in part because of the services offered at University Health Services that aren’t commonly offered on other college campuses — how-
ever, barriers have persisted to medical care access within UHS. Now, staff members from UHS and the LGBT Campus Center are shifting toward a model that will help create an affirming, inclusive space for students, according to LGBTCC Assistant Director Katherine Charek Briggs. Come May, UHS will move to informed consent as a model of health care, a shift Charek Briggs said gives patients agency in their own medical care. Informed consent allows patients to make decisions about their own health care after being
fully informed of benefits and consequences by their medical provider. Since 2012, UHS has required trans students to go through a Gender Identity Consultation with a trained therapist or counselor prior to receiving medical care. Patients must then obtain a written letter from that counselor, permitting them to receive the treatment they seek. The informed consent model enables patients to forgo mental health counseling and consult
In a recent survey, students reported a UW-Madison inclusion program effectively increased awareness of and respect for diversity on campus among first-year students in residence halls. Survey data revealed students who participated in the Our Wisconsin program — a three-hour workshop focused on respect for diversity, community connection, identifying bias and gaining appreciation for others’ experiences — were more aware of cultural differences on campus. While just 1,000 students participated in the program when it piloted in fall 2016, the program has expanded to reach 4,332 students. Students also participated as facilitators and co-led the workshops with a staff or faculty member. According to the survey, 71 percent of students reported feeling very or extremely responsible for helping members of their residence hall feel welcome on campus after par-
ticipating in the program — a 22 percent increase from what students reported before taking the workshop. Aaric Guerrero, the program’s inclusion education director, said the surveys were administered both before and after students participated in the workshop in order to identify the impact of the program. Guerrero said the data prove the program has the potential to improve campus climate, especially for students of underrepresented populations. “The intent is that the dialogue will make the campus climate feel not as isolating for many of our students with underrepresented identities,” Guerrero said. “Students coming from a number of different backgrounds just don’t feel like they belong or have a home here — this is a way to try to change that.” The data also revealed the workshop encouraged students to be more likely to speak up when stereotypical comments
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“We just sell food”: Late-night food carts oppose new rules By Max Bayer CITY NEWS EDITOR
Members of the city’s Vending Oversight Committee were met with harsh reactions Wednesday night when they took up a proposal to phase out late night food carts. Opponents of the proposal argue food carts are consistently and unfairly the targets of reforms rooted in overconsumption of alcohol. Mario Armenta, one of the four current late night vendors, doesn’t know what would happen if the vendors were forced to shut down. “If they take away our place at night, what are we going to do? How are we going to support our families,” Armenta, the owner of Taqueria Sabor Queretano, said. “I think that it’s ... unfair.” Fairness was a theme echoed by all four of the late-night vendors who were in attendance and testified before the committee.
“I think that the Vending Oversight Committee, as best you’re doing, is constantly punishing the food truck vendors for some reason,” said James Davis, owner of the cart JD’s. Davis has been a food cart vendor in Madison since 2007. “Are y’all here to support the vendors or protect the vendors? Because I really can’t tell,” said Davis, who added the committee is constantly taking people out of places where they can make money. Prior to the meeting, Ald. Zach Wood, District 8, proposed an amended version of the ordinance change that, by 2023, would move all of the late-night vendors to Library Mall, however those in attendance said since some of them sell the same food, such a plan would be a conflict. Wood says the committee “has to take everything into account.” “We tried to find a workable balance between addressing seri-
ous public safety concerns and the vending program itself,” he said. The vendors instead suggested that lawmakers and the committee work to address the overconsumption of alcohol, a move that Lieutenant of Patrol Brian Austin said is difficult because of state and federal alcohol laws. Austin added that officers who patrol the 600 block of University Avenue say the crowds that build around the food carts are an issue. “All of those officers believe that the food carts, while not the cause, were certainly a considering factor of the density of the area and the problems that came with that,” Austin said. Regardless of concerns regarding the concentration of the carts, the committee approved the amended legislation, which will go before the Common Council at their March 6 meeting.
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Humanities programs try to push the skills employers are looking for.
Despite usual stereotypes, humanities alumni see value By Luisa de Vogel ASSOCIATE NEWS EDITOR
When Rebekah Paré was studying jazz piano in college, she didn’t imagine the skills she was learning in her music theory classes would someday be directly applicable to a career outside of piano performance. Today the improvisation skills Paré learned in her piano classes inform her everyday work as the associate dean for the College of Letters and
Science career initiative at UW-Madison. Students are often pressured into science, technology, engineering, mathematics or pre-professional majors due to a myth that students who study the humanities are unable to compete in the job market without a graduate degree, according to Paré. “Our humanities stu-
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“…the great state University of Wisconsin should ever encourage that continual and fearless sifting and winnowing by which alone the truth can be found.”