Black students should be offered free tuition and housing at the University of Wisconsin-Madison because blacks were legally barred from education during slavery and UW-Madison remains out of reach for black students today, the student government said Wednesday.

'VietPong' team name at FIJI date night sparks backlash from Asian-American community

Black students should be offered free tuition and housing at the University of Wisconsin-Madison because blacks were legally barred from education during slavery and UW-Madison remains out of reach for black students today, the student government said Wednesday.

G. Gordon Liddy appeared many moons ago when I was in school. Nobody protested but he caught a lot of flack when he took questions. That seems a better way to accommodate freedom of speech while allowing for a thorough rebuttal IMO.

student protests and student governments almost always consist of non-STEM majors as the STEM majors are too busy learning applicable skills that will allow them to pay off their student debts and find gainful employment. The liberal arts students will piss away their college years on dumbass protests and then spend the next 25 years asking for Bernie to bail them out of their 5 figure debt as they are stuck working at Starbucks and found that their women's studies major doesn't lead to a paycheck.

This must be why my alma mater (Purdue) tends to be more apathetic on political issues than most. Everyone's too damn busy doing their MATLAB assignment to protest.

I don't think making everyone a STEM major is the solution.

I don't remember caring about much other than studying and recreating when I was in college. I think it is good that these kids are not like me.

It isn't, but I do think students should look at the career opportunities in a given field vs. the cost of obtaining the sheepskin in that field. They might give it some serious second thought or look at community college as a cost effective alternative. You would go along way towards solving the student debt crisis if they did that.

I don't think it's fair to blame 18-year-olds who have to ask permission to go to the bathroom for getting into debt when they were encouraged to, and told it was the smart and responsible thing to do.

can you imagine in ~10-15yrs if this board is overrun with a "new generation" of kids who wanna bitch about how parkins was really good back in 2017-20? you're beyond correctamundo here! =P

I don't think making everyone a STEM major is the solution.

^I will not disagree with this statement. Parents who allow an 18 year old to go $80,000 in debt for a history degree (and I love history) are not doing their job.

It remains out of reach for the vast majority of high school students today. From the website:

Admitted students will typically score between 27-31 on the ACT and 1870-2050 on the SAT, although there is no minimum required score.
We typically see unweighted, academic GPAs between a 3.8 and a 4.0, and a class rank in the 83-96 percentile.

https://www.admissions.wisc.edu/apply/f ... ements.php

Meaning about 82% of students are not going to get in based on class rank/GPA. And a 27 ACT score equates to the top 13% of test takers.

It remains out of reach for the vast majority of high school students today. From the website:

Admitted students will typically score between 27-31 on the ACT and 1870-2050 on the SAT, although there is no minimum required score.
We typically see unweighted, academic GPAs between a 3.8 and a 4.0, and a class rank in the 83-96 percentile.

https://www.admissions.wisc.edu/apply/f ... ements.php

Meaning about 82% of students are not going to get in based on class rank/GPA. And a 27 ACT score equates to the top 13% of test takers.

There was this crazy religious guy that had a flock on the quad at UIUC. I stopped by one time to hear his thoughts as it was election season in 1992. He was praising the 43 Republican Senators for their good work. Someone in the audience politely suggested he change his pitch because Bob Packwood (R) had been accused of sexual assault by many women.

Protesters are the scum of this earh. this country was founded on obedience and acceptance of rules and policies, not on protests and the questioning of authority. These PC libtards should be jailed or deported so we can revive this country's strong tradition of unquestioned obedience to rulers.

ACT is a joke. I rolled out of bed and got a 30 with no prep. Also college kids are full of shit.

No one cares about that anymore Dennis. Have a look at Pitt's. Some people have no fucking idea about what it takes to get into a great university. They say oh look they are on tv I should go there. Sorry you can you dumbass white slacker. These aren't even Ivy schools.

Come on now. Standardized tests have flaws but they are a decent determinant of whether a student is intelligent enough to make it through a given university. If got rolled out of bed and got a 30, then clearly you are a high IQ individual.

This guy gets it.

What preparation do you need for the ACT? You can't study for something that size. Either you know and have learned the material through high school, or you don't know it.