Source: badgerherald.com - Tuesday, October 30, 2018
In light of the battle over monuments in Madison, specifically in Forest Hill Cemetery and Memorial Union, the Continuing Studies department of the University of Wisconsin hosted a panel of community members to discuss the meaning of these monuments. Stu Levitan, an award-winning print and broadcast journalist and Heidi Lang, assistant director for the program and leadership development department at the Wisconsin Union, both spoke at the panel. Respectively, these members discussed the Forest Hill Confederate Rest Cenotaph, as well as the Wisconsin Union’s decision to remove the names of Porter Butts and Frederic March from room titles. The Forest Hill monument is the northernmost confederate monument in the United States where 140 confederate soldiers were buried in 1862, Levitan said. “The only indication that this even is a confederate monument is the reference to United Daughters of Confederacy, which was enough of an indication for the Madison [City Council] to order its removal,” Levitan said. Levitan, who is also the chair of the Landmarks Commission, has previously fought twice against its removal, only to be overturned by City Council. UW to conceal names of Klan-affiliates in Memorial Union The University of Wisconsin announced Thursday it will be covering the names of those associated with the Ku Klux Klan Read… Despite what may be thought to be the meaning of the monument nowadays, it was not originally meant to sig
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In light of the battle over monuments in Madison, specifically in Forest Hill Cemetery and Memorial Union, the Continuing Studies department of the University of Wisconsin hosted a panel of community members to discuss the meaning of these monuments. Stu Levitan, an award-winning print and broadcast journalist and Heidi Lang, assistant director for the program and leadership development department at the Wisconsin Union, both spoke at the panel. Respectively, these members discussed the Forest Hill Confederate Rest Cenotaph, as well as the Wisconsin Union’s decision to remove the names of Porter Butts and Frederic March from room titles. The Forest Hill monument is the northernmost confederate monument in the United States where 140 confederate soldiers were buried in 1862, Levitan said. “The only indication that this even is a confederate monument is the reference to United Daughters of Confederacy, which was enough of an indication for the Madison [City Council] to order its removal,” Levitan said. Levitan, who is also the chair of the Landmarks Commission, has previously fought twice against its removal, only to be overturned by City Council. UW to conceal names of Klan-affiliates in Memorial Union The University of Wisconsin announced Thursday it will be covering the names of those associated with the Ku Klux Klan Read… Despite what may be thought to be the meaning of the monument nowadays, it was not originally meant to sig
Source: Breaking News
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