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Global Showcase

Global Showcase

Kristine Gallagher, Staff Writer January 28, 2025

The United Common Ground (UCG) will host their 16th Annual Global Showcase on March 5, 2025, from 11 am –1 pm in D1630.  Everyone is welcome to wear your cultural clothing to gain more food tokens!  The...

Yahara Journal announces contest winners

Yahara Journal announces contest winners

Clarion Staff Report January 28, 2025

The Yahara Journal received 51 submissions for its fall writing and artwork contest. First-place winners in the poetry, prose and artwork categories will receive a $50 prize.  Winners in the contest...

Spring intramural sports are open for registration

Spring intramural sports are open for registration

Provided to the Clarion January 27, 2025

Madison College has several intramural sports options for students this spring. Students can participate in martial arts, ultimate frisbee, 7-on-7 soccer, flag football, 3-on-3 basketball, volleyball,...

Mark your calendars for Winter Fest

Mark your calendars for Winter Fest

Provided to The Clarion January 27, 2025

Kick off the new semester with Winterfest! Come join us for some free food (chili) and fun activities. Learn more about engagement opportunities by browsing through our involvement fair, which contains...

Covering Wisconsin Open Hours

Provided to The Clarion January 27, 2025

Need help paying for Health Care? Many students qualify for free or low-cost programs. Healthcare Navigators from Covering Wisconsin will be available at Madison College to provide FREE in-person...

Students work on a mural outside the blocked off Student Services area that is under construction through August 2025.

Remodeling project starts

Kelly Feng, Editor in Chief January 21, 2025

Upon arriving at the Truax Camps this semester, you will notice that construction walls have popped up in the Gateway and D Block area, indicating that the college remodeling project is underway. Madison...

Madison College student Iman Alrashid and her family fled Syria in 2012, seeking refuge from the dangers there.

Student reflects on hardship but promise in Syria

Kelly Feng, Editor in Chief January 21, 2025

As texts go, it was plain and simple. Just three words. “Assad is gone.” Last December, Iman Alsharid, a Madison College alum, received that text from her husband, Chadi Alhaj Kadour. It was about...

Madison College Cupboard Food Pantry Logo.

Cupboard Student Food Pantries

Provided to The Clarion January 21, 2025

We know that food insecurity is a real issue our students face every day. The Cupboard Student Food Pantries will be open for curbside pickup starting the week of Jan. 21 at the Truax and Goodman South...

Artist rendering of the new child care center being built at the Goodman South Campus. Provided to The Clarion.

Work begins this month on Goodman South Child Care Center

Clarion staff report January 21, 2025

Construction on the Early Learning Campus at Madison College’s Goodman South location is set to begin this month.   The new $10 million facility will fulfill a promise to bring child care to the...

Scarlet Martino (left) and Andrea Renteria (right) showing off the Santa's Wishlist tree in Traux Student Life

Santa’s Wishlist 

Declan Rafter, Staff Writer January 21, 2025

The power of giving is an unexpected joy until you experience it for yourself. I realized this as I sat on the limestone pylons circling the kiss and parked by the Truax Gateway. I adjusted my Santa hat...

Instructor John Opel, left, joins David Hansen and Olivia Petersen for a Writer's Life Series event.

The Horror! The Horror!

Kristine Gallager, Staff Writer January 21, 2025

In the Black Box Theater on Tuesday, Dec. 3, from 3 p.m. - 4 p.m, the Writers’ Life Lecture series focused on horror writing. Moderators included L. David Hansen, creator of the series and co-host, and...

Former Lieutenant Governor Mandela Barnes speaks to high school Black Student Union members while they work on an activity during the National BSU Conference at Madison College on Nov. 22, 2024.

National BSU Conference hosted by the Madison College chapter

August Bengry, Staff Writer December 4, 2024

There is a laughing group of professionals moving through the halls of the first floor at Madison College’s Truax Campus. Adults and teenagers, friends and strangers, guests and speakers hailing from...

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