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Wednesday in Whitewater will see scattered thunderstorms with a high of 80. Sunrise is 5:24 AM and sunset 8:35 PM, for 15h 10m 31s of daytime. The moon is a waning crescent with 6.1% of its visible disk illuminated.
On this day in 1832 during the Black Hawk War, General Atkinson leads his entire militia, which includes future presidents Abraham Lincoln and Zachary Taylor, to a camp just south of Palmyra
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Kelly Meyerhofer reports UW System proposes no tuition increase for in-state students despite freeze set to be lifted:
Tuition for in-state undergraduates enrolled at a University of Wisconsin System campus will remain flat over the next school year under a plan put forth by System officials.
That’s despite the UW Board of Regents being poised to have its tuition-setting authority restored for the first time in eight years under a state budget that Gov. Tony Evers must act on by Friday.
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UW leaders have long lamented the freeze. In 2019-20, UW-Madison charged in-state undergraduates the fifth-lowest tuition rate among public Big Ten schools and charged out-of-state students the third-highest.
Asked why interim System President Tommy Thompson didn’t include a tuition increase in the budget, System spokesperson Mark Pitsch said only that the Regents and Thompson “are committed to a thoughtful consideration of tuition.”
The average cost of attending college this year will, however, increase slightly.
When factoring in room and board, along with student fees, System officials calculate the average cost for a Wisconsin student living on campus will increase 1%, or $160 at four-year campuses. At UW-Madison, student fees will decrease from $1,469 to $1,447, dorm rates will increase by about $200 and meal plans will cost $50 more.
The budget Republicans forwarded to Evers also includes $8.25 million in additional state money for the System, a fraction of the $96 million UW requested and all of which is tied to a specific purpose. That means campuses will have to find a way to foot their portion of a 2% pay increase for UW employees in each of the next two years — about $8.4 million — with existing funds.
Nicole Perlroth and reports Attempted Hack of R.N.C. and Russian Ransomware Attack Test Biden:
Russian hackers are accused of breaching a contractor for the Republican National Committee last week, around the same time that Russian cybercriminals launched the single largest global ransomware attack on record, incidents that are testing the red lines set by President Biden during his high-stakes summit with President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia last month.
The R.N.C. said in a statement on Tuesday that one of its technology providers, Synnex, had been hacked. While the extent of the attempted breach remained unclear, the committee said none of its data had been accessed.
Early indications were that the culprit was Russia’s S.V.R. intelligence agency, according to investigators in the case. The S.V.R. is the group that initially hacked the Democratic National Committee six years ago and more recently conducted the SolarWinds attack that penetrated more than a half-dozen government agencies and many of the largest U.S. corporations.
The R.N.C. attack was the second of apparent Russian origin to become public in the last few days, and it was unclear late Tuesday whether the two were related. On Sunday, a Russian-based cybercriminal organization known as REvil claimed responsibility for a cyberattack over the long holiday weekend that has spread to 800 to 1,500 businesses around the world. It was one of the largest attacks in history in which hackers shut down systems until a ransom is paid, security researchers said.
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