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The literary review found that more research should be done before internships become mandated.
‘Internships’ too vague to be requirement for graduation, study finds By Maggie Chandler COLLEGE NEWS EDITOR
For many, job experience in the form of an internship can seem like a golden ticket to employment — but a recent literature review suggests it’s not that simple. In February, Gov. Scott Walker included a proposal in the 2017-’19 biennial budget that would have required all UW System students to have work experience or complete an internship before graduation. Walker said this would bridge the gap between the classroom and workplace experience. But ultimately, the Joint Finance Committee struck it down.
In response to the proposal, researchers at the Center for Research on College-Workforce Transitions conducted a threemonth introductory review on work-based learning. The review’s findings ran counter to Walker’s call to mandate internships. One of the main findings from the study was that internships lacked a clear definition, making it challenging for research to take characteristics like payment, duration and mentorship into account. As a result, Matt Hora, director of CWT, showed that it’s not clear how internships should be set up. Without a definition, it’s hard to see the effects of internships
on students’ employability, longterm wages and career satisfaction — ultimately making it a challenge to provide a definitive claim about internships as a whole, Hora said. “Just checking the box ‘I took an internship’ doesn’t tell you much of anything about what that internship experience was like,” Hora said. Since institutional data only tracks whether or not students had an internship, it isn’t clear what the quality of the experience was like for students, Hora said. Even outside of the study, there are hurdles across the UW
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Homecoming events raise money for charities By Lawrence Andrea CAMPUS NEWS EDITOR
Wit h U W-Mad i s o n’s Homecoming Week upon us, the Wisconsin Homecoming Committee’s events are once again set to benefit charities and organizations across the country. According to committee president Alex Kredell, the approximately 40-person committee not only plans events like the Spirit Parade to bring together the campus community, but also holds philanthropic events like Swish Upon a Cure. “The Homecoming committee has a unique mission that extends far beyond the boundaries of this campus,” Kredell said. “Homecoming is about bringing the
campus and alumni together, but it’s also about connecting and uplifting the entire Madison community.” The week’s first event, which was held Sunday night in the Historical Society, was the fourth annual A Cappella Showcase. Hosted by both BadgerThon — a student organization that works to support patients and families of the American Family Children’s Hospital — and the Wisconsin Homecoming Committee, the event raised approximately $2,200 for the hospital, according to Kredell. In addition to the showcase, “Swish Upon a Cure,” formerly known as “Shooting Down Cancer,” will be hosted in the Kohl Center Monday from 3 to 6 p.m. Students
are invited to the Kohl Center to shoot a free throw and a half-court shot with the opportunity to benefit the “Garding Against Cancer” charity, established by men’s basketball coach Greg Gard. According to a release by UW Athletics, Gard and his family will donate one dollar for every student who walks into the gym, five dollars for every free throw made and $500 for every half-court shot made. The event has raised $1,116,757 in its first five years, according to the release. To view the full schedule of homecoming events, including Wednesday’s Light of the Moon Homecoming 5k supporting Lighting the Way with Pink, visit wiscohoco.com.
After a fight involving up to 15 people broke out in the Langdon Street area Saturday, one person was knocked unconscious and ended up in the hospital with “significant injuries.” The fight apparently began early Saturday morning when two groups of people left The Kollege Klub arguing over a lost jacket, according to a Madison Police Department log of daily significant calls. When police arrived at the scene, they found a man unconscious near the corner of Langdon and Frances Streets. A caller told police that
between 12 and 15 people were involved in the fight, although there were two “main instigators,” the report said. Additional fighting broke out after the initial dispute when some “[took] offense to others taking photos of the unconscious man.” The victim, a 21-year-old man, was severely intoxicated and was transported to the hospital with “significant injuries,” according to the report. As of Saturday, officers had not located the suspected assailant. —Noah Habenstreit
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The Saturday morning fight involved more than a dozen people.
Multicultural Student Coalition sues SSFC for ‘vague’ application rules By Megan Provost STAFF WRITER
Amid accusations of incomplete documentation and outdated standing rules, the Multicultural Student Coalition is suing the Student Services Finance Committee after being denied eligibility for General Student Services funding. SSFC defines a first-time applicant as any organization that hasn’t received GSSF funding in the past fiscal year. However, MCSC member Ian Oyler said this rule does not apply to their group because they have been a GSSF organization since 2000 and had a budget as recent as fiscal year 2013. Oyler said SSFC’s definition of a first-year applicant was too vague, causing confusion which kept MCSC from submitting two additional documents required of first-time applicants. SSFC Chair Jordan Gaal’s overall response was not helpful in allowing the organization to attain eligibility, Oyler said. The lack of “clear verbal written policy or procedure for lack of satisfactory completion” of applications and out-of-date
SSFC standing rules on the website violates the organization’s right to due process, Oyler said, calling those rules “vague, confusing and not standardized.” Gaal said standing rules were from the 22nd session of SSFC because the 23rd had not made any amendments to them, meaning that they weren’t updated online. The 2017-’18 standing rules were not posted on the ASM website because they were only approved by the committee at the first committee meeting on Sept. 7. The misunderstanding began when an MCSC representative contacted SSFC Vice Chair Kristi Parsons nine days before the application deadline, Oyler said. Parsons reviewed MCSC’s application and didn’t tell the organization that they were any missing documents. Gaal defended her correspondence, saying that it was “in no way misleading” because the decision to deny the application came from him. A few days later, MCSC received an email which said their applica-
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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.”