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my parents are here; I spent so much time around here.” The kids said they never felt pressured by their parents to come to UW-Madison, each of them even toured other universities before finally deciding to call UW home. But when Allie completed the Fons family tree as the final of the four Badger children, the family was elated. “It was more so we all fell in love with it individually,” Allie said about how she decided to come to Madison. “I just heard
National and state Democratic lawmakers are calling for a special legislative session to address delays to road projects announced last week, saying the setbacks will hamper Wisconsin’s economy. U.S. Rep. Mark Pocan, D-Wis., state Senate Minority Leader Jennifer Shilling, D-La Crosse, and Assembly Minority Leader Peter Barca, D-Kenosha, are among those asking Gov. Scott Walker to convene the special session to fully fund road construction projects that would otherwise be delayed. The Wisconsin Department of Transportation announced last week that five major road projects, including construction on Verona Road in Dane County, would be pushed back at least two years after cuts in the most recent budget. Barca and Assembly Democratic leaders asked Walker in a letter to reconsider those funding cuts and called for a special session, saying the state’s transportation infrastructure was “crumbling.” “It is time to stop playing politics and commit resources to these essential investments,” the legislators wrote. “Road and building projects are a central component
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Following an increase in outreach efforts, Madison Police Department Public Information Officer Joel DeSpain answered questions from the public using Reddit’s “Ask Me Anything” function Friday. The forum, which focused on DeSpain’s history of using creative language in writing incident reports, addressed personal topics like his favorite color and professional topics regarding his post as the police department’s spokesperson. “There have been a couple of cases where I later learned the report had an unintentional negative impact on someone,” DeSpain wrote on the impact of his unconventional reports of crime in Madison. “I have really tried very hard to not let that happen again.” DeSpain’s Reddit question and answer session follows MPD Chief Mike Koval’s appearance on “The Daily Show” last week. DeSpain said he did not mind not seeing his work featured on the show because he “is not one really looking for 15 seconds of fame.” DeSpain began his work as the first civilian to hold the public information officer in the
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PHOTO COURTESY OF STEVEN AND ALLIE FONS
A majority of the Fons family chose to attend UW-Madison, where many have met spouses and continued to build their Badger family tree through multiple generations.
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Family calls UW home across generations By Allison Garcia THE DAILY CARDINAL
Terry and Laura Fons met on a UW-Madison intramural volleyball team in 1982. After graduation, the two got married and went on to have four children who would eventually create a Badger legacy. All four of their kids— Nathan, Lindsay, Steven and Allie—followed in their parents’ footsteps “by the light of the moon” and joined the Badger family. Both Steven and Allie are currently on campus completing their undergraduate degrees.
Steven is a senior studying Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences and can be found on the field of Camp Randall marching with the band as a mellophone player. Allie is a sophomore majoring in Dietetics, just like her mother did when she was at UW-Madison. “I applied to all of these places and toured a couple of them, and I think I just kind of always had a feeling that I would come here, even when I was at these other schools,” Steven said. “Partially because both my older siblings are here,
UW-Madison campus dining facilities to stop printing receipts
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Students will have one less thing to grab when checking out at UW-Madison dining halls next week, as University Housing cash registers will no longer print out receipts for each transaction, according to a UW-Madison release. University Housing, the Wisconsin Union and the UW-Madison Office of Sustainability are joining forces to reduce the amount of paper used across campus. “So many people didn’t want their receipts. They would ditch them around the cash register, or they would fly off their tray,” said Julie Luke, associate director of Dining
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Paper receipts at UW dining halls will soon be a relic of the past. and Culinary Services for University Housing said in the release. UW-Madison physics professor Duncan Carlsmith worked with undergraduate Rachel Feil of the Office of Sustainability who developed the idea of receipt reduction for her sustainability internship and a class project. Feil collaborated with former
Associated Students of Madison Sustainability Committee Chair Kyla Kaplan between the unions and dining facilities to gauge student interest in decreasing paper use. Kaplan said that when Housing cuts receipt printing, paper expenses will be cut by nearly 90 percent, saving about $20,000 to $30,000 per year.
“…the great state University of Wisconsin should ever encourage that continual and fearless sifting and winnowing by which alone the truth can be found.”