ASM Chair

Brittany Wiegand is the Chair of the Associated Students of Madison, UW-Madison’s student government. She is a fifth year senior, and will finally be graduating in the Spring of 2009. She has served as an intern on the recently-abolished Campus Relations Committee, the Chair of the Finance Committee, member of SSFC, intern coordinator, and a member of several smaller boards related to finance. After serving a brief stint as the Legislative Affairs Chair in the summer of 2008, she became Chair of the organization in mid-June. She is also actively involved in the Greek Community. 

Please send any and all comments to brittany.wiegand@gmail.com

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The image on the front page is 1,008 pink flamingoes placed on Bascom Hill in celebration of the Pail & Shovel Party winning reelection in 1979. The party formed as a joke, campaigning in the spring 1978 elections to convert the budget into pennies to be dumped on UW’s Library Mall where students could use pails and shovels to take what they wanted.

The party also promised to flood the stadium in order to have mock naval battles, buy the Statue of Liberty and bring it to Wisconsin, and change every student’s name to Joe Smith so that all professors could know each student’s name. 

http://www.wisconsinhistory.org/museum/artifacts/archives/001660.asp

…. at least ASM isn’t doing this