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Are you a good mentor and collaborator? Are you a strong writer with an affinity for helping other students? If so, the Writing Fellows Program wants you! As a Writing Fellow, you support a small group of students in their writing, give feedback, and conduct one-to-one conferences. Fellows receive a stipend every semester and get a wealth of opportunities to enhance their skill sets.  To learn more, join us for our upcoming information session (see flyer below). We will have testimonies from current Fellows, an extensive description oft the position, and a Q&A session to answer your questions. We hope to see you there!

Working Class Student Union (WCSU) is bringing New York Times  #1 bestselling author Patrick Rothfuss, the Stevens Point native behind The Name of the Wind, A Wise Man's Fear, and The Slow Regard for Silent Things to campus on Nov 3 rd and 4 th . His trilogy has been optioned by Lionsgate for TV and film productions; he has appeared at Comic-Con and NerdCon: Stories, raised over $4 million for his charity Worldbuilders (which provides clean water, livestock and education to developing communities around the world), and earned numerous awards for his writing, including the Quill Award and Publishers Weekly Best Science Fiction/Fantasy/Horror Book of the Year EVENTS:    Friday 11/4 7-9p: Patrick Rothfuss Keynote Address and Q&A (Bascom 272)          - https://www.facebook.com/events/548816421982626/

“Unaffordable America: Poverty, Housing, and Eviction,” Matthew Desmond,  Fast Focus  No. 22-2015, Institute for Research on Poverty, University of Wisconsin-Madison, March 2015. http://www.irp.wisc.edu/publications/fastfocus/pdfs/FF22-2015.pdf In this research brief, Matthew Desmond explores the crisis faced by poor families in finding and maintaining affordable housing. Drawing from his own extensive ethnographic and quantitative research, Desmond outlines the trends that led to the current situation: rising housing costs, stagnant or falling incomes among the poor, and a shortfall of federal housing assistance. As a result of these trends, most poor renting families now devote over half of their income to housing costs, and eviction has become commonplace in low-income communities. Poor single mothers with young children, particularly African Americans, are at especially high risk of eviction. Desmond reviews the consequences of eviction—for parents, children, and neighborho

The   100-Hour Challenge  is UW-Madison's signature entrepreneurial contest for undergraduates.  In a nutshell, the Challenge involves teams of students using donated materials from SWAP to come up with a new product idea in 100 Hours (essentially over a long weekend). They then make a short video pitch of their big idea for the chance to win prize money! SWAP materials pick-up day is Thursday, Nov. 10 th , 2016 in Sellery Hall, with final videos needing to be uploaded by mid-day Monday, Nov. 14th.   For m ore informatio n, visit this website .