KELLY MEYERHOFER
UW-Madison administrators and the universityâs student council are clashing over how to help students struggling because of the pandemic, with the council looking to put more money toward student rent payments using a strategy UW-Madison said is illegal, and the university taking an approach student government calls the bare minimum.
Itâs the latest standoff between the two sides and characteristic of the more combative stance student government has embraced in a school year that has left many students emotionally, financially or mentally exhausted.
Mitnick
âIf Iâm being honest with you, I didnât think things would be this tense when I started,â said Matthew Mitnick, who was elected chairperson of the Associated Students of Madison last September. âBut weâre not a mouthpiece for the administration. Weâre here to represent students and focus on who is being left out and who doesnât have a seat at the ta