Good morning.
Thursday in Whitewater will see a mix of rain and snow with a high of 35. Sunrise is 6:58 AM and sunset 5:19 PM for 10h 20m 17s of daytime. The moon is a waning gibbous with 87.5% of its visible disk illuminated.
Whitewater’s Alcohol Licensing Committee meets at 2 PM.
On this day in 1870, President Grant signs a joint resolution of Congress establishing the U.S. Weather Bureau.
The Washington Post has a 50-state survey of which town in each state has the most college students as a percentage of the city (where the examination was among cities). The Post calls those places the ‘collegiest‘ towns in each state. (The most collegiate places would have worked well enough.)
UW-Whitewater, unsurprisingly, has the most college students in Wisconsin as a percentage of its home city. Whitewater, Wisconsin ranks high — 8th — on the Post‘s national list.
The high percentage of students has not, however, aided efforts to overcome town-gown conflicts. On the contrary, the non-student population includes a fair number of residents who’d rather Whitewater had no campus at all. Those who have worked on bringing campus and town closer have mostly failed. They’ve tried hard, some of them, but their efforts have produced little. Whitewater has a faction that deprecates college life, ridicules a college education, and insists that this town would be fine with no campus. (This hostility is a deflection: the level of child poverty in Whitewater shows that our problems begin at home, so to speak, not on campus.)
Bridging the town-gown divide requires more than wearing royal purple or renting apartments to college students. (Those who see the campus mostly as a money stream, notably the town’s landlords, are among the least insightful about what makes a college a vibrant place, let alone how to bring diverse student and non-student groups together.)
Andrew Van Dam reports The collegiest college town in every state, and more:
A college town for every state
The urban area in each state with the highest share of college students
Table with 5 columns and 52 rows. Currently displaying rows 1 to 52. Sorted descending by column “College students” New York Alfred 4,500 $42,917 Texas Prairie View 6,161 $25,714 Pennsylvania Slippery Rock 6,550 $39,091 Ohio Cedarville 4,204 $55,114 Colorado Air Force Academy 2,833 $67,454 North Carolina Boone 22,323 $31,803 Vermont Middlebury 5,563 $61,181 Wisconsin Whitewater 14,346 $38,957 Washington Pullman 32,940 $31,953 Mississippi Raymond 2,689 $38,321 Georgia Dahlonega 5,588 $43,613 Virginia Lexington 9,435 $66,727 Iowa Ames 65,684 $54,285 Indiana Upland 3,372 $65,000 Kentucky Morehead 6,678 $29,344 Michigan Big Rapids 12,544 $35,086 Oklahoma Stillwater 46,611 $37,189 New Hampshire Plymouth 3,337 $48,274 Missouri Maryville 11,950 $41,913 California Davis 75,447 $79,445 South Dakota Vermillion 11,037 $47,644 Idaho Rexburg 33,423 $44,461 Maine Farmington 3,598 $43,639 Nebraska Wayne 5,545 $45,625 Kansas Manhattan 54,923 $51,735 Wyoming Laramie 31,999 $47,053 Utah Ephraim 5,258 $54,183 Arkansas Arkadelphia 10,124 $34,597 Alabama Troy 15,384 $32,782 Louisiana Ruston 27,098 $32,017 Tennessee Martin 9,765 $37,695 Oregon Corvallis 67,430 $60,401 Illinois Macomb 16,014 $34,986 Arizona Flagstaff 81,904 $62,396 Minnesota Northfield 22,057 $75,417 West Virginia Shepherdstown 4,129 $71,292 South Carolina Denmark 2,730 $32,533 Florida Gainesville 209,103 $49,450 Maryland Princess Anne 10,881 $34,898 Montana Bozeman 52,801 $68,004 Hawaii Laie 14,905 $93,750 Massachusetts North Adams 17,905 $53,470 Connecticut Willimantic 28,564 $48,263 North Dakota Grand Forks 66,770 $53,729 New Mexico Socorro 8,555 $45,982 Puerto Rico Mayagüez 93,482 $16,471 Alaska Northeast Anchorage 29,269 $114,442 Delaware Dover 124,530 $64,464 Nevada West Wendover 4,953 $52,250 Rhode Island Providence 1,237,933 $71,923 New Jersey Browns Mills 37,685 $78,508 District of Columbia Washington 5,083,261 $112,148
Curiosity discovers evidence of water on ancient Mars with ripples and landslide debris: