The University of Wisconsin women’s hockey team took over the top spot in this week’s USA Today/USA Hockey Magazine Women’s College Hockey Poll.
The Badgers, who swept a conference series at Ohio State over the weekend, got 17 of 19 first-place votes in the poll.
It’s not surprising that many people around the globe don’t understand how this electoral system works. But according to Charles Franklin, Professor of Political Science at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, many Americans are just as clueless as to how it operates as people elsewhere.
A Dane County judge has given the Wisconsin Public Service Commission an additional six months to complete analysis of the proposed West Middleton-Rockdale power line.
Circuit Court Judge Michael Nowakowski granted Friday the PSC’s request to extend the decision deadline on the 345-kilovolt line from Jan. 9, 2009 to July 6, 2009.
A 20-year-old Madison woman was able to break away from a sexual assault attempt Saturday night in the East Johnson Street/Pinckney Street area.
Photographer Bob Rashid, best known for his book “Wisconsin’s Rustic Roads,” died suddenly Thursday when his aorta was torn. He was 59.
Rashid did a lot of work for University of Wisconsin publications, and recently for the UW’s School of Nursing. He was one of the photographers at Deer Park near Oregon whenever the Dalai Lama came to visit and he also took photographs on medical missions, going to Kazakhstan twice in 10 years.
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Fans from both Penn State and the University of Wisconsin were on their best behavior before Saturday night’s showdown at Camp Randall Stadium.
In fact, one fan who drove all the way to Madison from Pennsylvania gave me the shirt off his back. Really.
I was assigned to look into whether Badger fans still act like what a scolding editorial in our competitor’s paper dubbed “drunken louts.” What better way to do that than to be an undercover Penn State fan myself?
A Badger fan who reportedly refused to move out of the aisle at Camp Randall Stadium was Tasered and arrested during a scuffle involving herself, her husband and three UW-Madison police officers shortly after kickoff of the UW-Penn State football game.
Margaret Hiebing, 54, 405 Woodward Drive, was charged with disorderly conduct and resisting arrest while her husband, Roman Hiebing Jr., 65, same address, was charged with disorderly conduct, according to UW-Madison police.
Mike Leckrone is legendary as the unbound band director at the University of Wisconsin. In the band’s annual spring concerts, which draw rock-star levels of crowds, Leckrone, director for 39 of his 72 years, has dropped onto the stage on a bungee cord, rode a bicycle down a wire, slid down a firefighter pole, drove in on a motorcycle, rode in on a wedge of cheese, and flew in on a cow that flipped in midair. Discuss
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“I tell the kids it’s supposed to be fun, but not fun at the expense of other people,” Leckrone said.
Last week, the unbound director demarcated that boundary. Upon receiving credible allegations of hazing involving alcohol and inappropriate sexual behavior, he took the unprecedented act of suspending the marching band, starting with a nationally televised home game against Ohio State.
With the economy on everyone’s mind, two economic heavyweights squared off at the UW.
Dr. Ike Brannon and Dr. Austan Goolsbee met at Grainger Hall to fight for their candidates.
“In the next two hours we hope to learn how a McCain or Obama administration would shape the economic agenda from two people who would play a large roll is setting those agendas,” said debate moderator and business school Dean Michael Knetter.
An adviser to John McCain said Friday his plan to buy bad mortgages with tax money is the best way to address the nation’s economic crisis, but an aide to Barack Obama argued that would reward greedy lenders.
The comments came during a two-hour debate between Obama’s senior economic adviser Austan Goolsbee and senior McCain policy adviser Ike Brannon at the University of Wisconsin-Madison business school.
Quoted: Ken Goldstein, director of the Wisconsin Advertising Project and UW-Madison political science professor.
The mother of 21-year old Brittany Zimmermann is finally speaking out, hoping she can find her daughter’s killer. Brittany was found murdered in her off-campus apartment back in April.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison has apologized to a black student who during a class last year was shown a clip of the movie “Blazing Saddles” that features racial epithets.
A longtime Wisconsin lawmaker and the editor of Madison’s alternative weekly newspaper plan to debate on Monday.
The debate between Democratic state Rep. Marlin Schneider of Wisconsin Rapids and Isthmus editor Bill Lueders (LEE’-ders) is over access to online court records.
Quoted: Michael Knetter, dean of the Wisconsin School of Business at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
MARSHFIELD — Gov. Jim Doyle has unveiled an initiative he says will make Wisconsin a worldwide leader in personalized health care.
Doyle on Friday announced the formation of the Wisconsin Medical Research Triangle, one that might rival a similar research park in North Carolina.
The three points of the triangle are universities in Madison and Milwaukee and a clinic in Marshfield.
A floating tribute to the water deity Mami Wata (pidgin English for “Mother Water”) set sail on Lake Mendota on Saturday to kick off the upcoming Chazen Museum of Art’s “Mami Wata: Arts for Water Spirits in Africa and Its Diasporas.”
Local artists and art organizations painted sails for the regatta, which was organized with help from Hoofer Sailing Club. A parade of lighted boats wrapped up the event.
And the band will play on.
The culture that has allowed demeaning and inappropriate conduct within the University of Wisconsin Marching Band, however, must change.
That was the message University of Wisconsin-Madison officials sent Thursday when they held a news conference to announce the band would be allowed to play at Saturday night’s UW football game against Penn State at Camp Randall Stadium.
Mike Eaves again asks for your patience.UW Hockey
Like last year, when the University of Wisconsin menâ??s hockey team welcomed a large freshman class that included three first-round National Hockey League draft picks, Eaves and his staff got the job done on the recruiting trail. Seven freshmen join the program, including three NHL picks.
After a hazing investigation kept it off the field last weekend, the University of Wisconsin Marching Band will be allowed to perform Saturday at Camp Randall, but some members will face disciplinary action for violating university conduct codes, officials said Thursday.
André DeShields, UW alumnus and a Broadway actor, will not direct “Hair” at University Theatre this spring as planned and announced.
Instead, the actor and director, 62, will appear in “Impressionism” with Joan Allen and Jeremy Irons in a Broadway production directed by Jack O’Brien.quare
Some of the guilt over using a power-sucking laptop may subside with a simple sticker.
University of Wisconsin-Madison senior Ted Durkee and recent graduate Brandon Gador co-founded a company called Powered Green, which they hope could “change the way everyday people perceive and use renewable energy.”
Dear Editor: It’s an old story. Why be surprised? University leadership has made the UW band the strongest promoter of drinking on campus there is. Incessant use of the Bud song melody and “Roll Out the Barrel” popularizes and encourages student drinking. Yes, the students are old enough to be responsible for their actions (though predominantly under legal drinking age), but leadership encouragement through music shares the blame. Oh, yes, and don’t forget the example set by 50-year-old adolescent alumni.
Ray Bayley, Sauk City
The University of Wisconsin Marching Band practiced again Wednesday afternoon and continues to fine-tune its routine in advance of Saturday night’s UW football game against No. 6 Penn State at Camp Randall Stadium.
Whether or not the band will be allowed to perform or not remains in limbo.
Prior to Wednesday’s practice, band director Mike Leckrone said it is not yet clear whether the band’s suspension will be lifted before Saturday.
With sixth-ranked Penn State (6-0, 2-0) coming to Camp Randall Stadium Saturday night to face UW (3-2, 0-2), mired in a two-game losing streak, Badgers quarterback Allan Evridge’s level of play and his status as the starter are hot topics of debate.
When the UW-Madison E-Business Consortium was formed a decade ago, e-business was just a concept to many.
State business executives found answers – and each other – through the UWEBC, a university-industry partnership that enables Wisconsin companies to collaborate on e-business solutions.
Today, the 60 UWEBC member companies include such state heavyweights as Alliant Energy, Lands’ End, Harley-Davidson, American Family Insurance and CUNA Mutual.
Through conferences, peer groups, workshops and sponsored research projects with UW-Madison faculty, staff and students, these and other state businesses can address and share e-business and information technology challenges, best practices and strategies for success.
I think the world of UW Band Director Mike Leckrone. He and his marching band have been nationwide ambassadors for the University of Wisconsin for decades, adding color and excitement to everything from athletic events to the wildly popular spring concerts at the Kohl Center.
Sports purists hate this, but some people actually go to football games to hear the band first, watch the team second. The band is, after all, one of the best bands in the land, if not THE best.
I’m disappointed, though, in Leckrone’s decision to suspend the entire band for the misdeeds of what appears to be a handful of members.
Two people walking on the bicycle path near North Charter and Spring Streets on the UW-Madison campus were robbed at gunpoint early Wednesday morning. Neither of the victims were injured.
MILWAUKEE (AP) — A 21-year-old Delafield woman is the second person to be charged in connection with the death of a 31-year-old University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee student last week.
Tammi L. LaFave is accused of helping kidnap Haroon Khan, whose body was found in a shallow grave.
The University of Wisconsin Board of Regents did a fine job of hiring a new chancellor for the system’s flagship campus at Madison — respected scholar and administrator Biddy Martin — but the board’s chancellor searches do not always turn out well.
University of Wisconsin-Madison custodians, angered by a unilaterally imposed change in third-shift work schedules, plan to hold an informational picket Tuesday at 5 p.m. in front of the UW Service Building at 1217 University Ave.
Extreme rainfall events in southern Wisconsin will become 10 to 40 percent stronger as the climate continues to change toward the end of the century, resulting in greater potential for flooding and waterborne diseases that often accompany high sewage diversion into Lake Michigan, University of Wisconsin researchers predict.
University of Wisconsin-Madison Chancellor Carolyn “Biddy” Martin said she has no immediate plans to address allegations by Jeremi Suri that the UW Athletic Board has become nothing more than a rubber stamp of sorts for the desires of the athletic department.
“I’m going to let the Athletic Board report its findings from its self study and let the process play out as opposed to stepping in,” Martin said Monday after the UW Faculty Senate’s monthly meeting in Bascom Hall.
Carolyn “Biddy” Martin said Monday that she agrees with Mike Leckrone’s decision to suspend the UW Marching Band indefinitely after hazing allegations were leveled against some of its members late last week.
Martin, speaking with The Capital Times after the UW-Madison Faculty Senate’s monthly meeting at Bascom Hall, also said it’s too early in the investigation to know when the inquiry might be complete or whether or not the band will be able to perform at Saturday night’s UW football game against Penn State at Camp Randall Stadium.
Elizabeth Burmaster, state superintendent of public instruction since 2001, said Monday that she will not seek a third term as the stateâ??s highest ranking kindergarten-through-12th grade education official.
The deaths of the patriarch of a prominent local family and his young wife in an apparent murder-suicide has left members of the local Latino community shocked and saddened.
“This is truly an incredible tragedy,” Peter Munoz, executive director of Centro Hispano, said Monday.
MILWAUKEE — A missing University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee student may have been the victim of foul play, the Dodge County Sheriff’s Department said Saturday.
Acting on a tip, authorities in the Watertown area found the vehicle of Haroon Khan in a storage unit in southern Dodge County and, on Saturday afternoon, worked to remove a body from a shallow grave about 220 yards away, Sheriff Todd Nehls said.
University of Wisconsin band dirctor Michael Leckrone announced Friday that the famed UW marching band has been suspended for Saturday night’s nationally television game against Ohio State and won’t play again until an investigation into allegations of hazing and inappropriate sexual activity is finished.
Leckrone and UW Dean of Students Lori Berquam declined to say where the latest alleged incidents occurred or talk in specifics about the allegations, but Leckrone said they involved “inappropriate alcohol use, hazing and sexual behavior.”
A national law firm specializing in biotechnology and life sciences issues is closing its Madison office but the 25 affected employees are expected to land with another firm.
Higher education is becoming essential for many careers, but is it out of reach for a lot of students?
State government and education officials want to convince high schoolers and their families that going to college or taking post-secondary coursework is realistic for practically everybody in Wisconsin during a one-day push touting the possibilities.
Higher Education Day in Wisconsin is slated for Tuesday, with more than 20 events planned statewide to make the public aware of the learning opportunities in the Badger State.
The Milwaukee region is home to a concentration of water companies. They include nine different facilities for five of the world’s 11 largest water companies.
But it’s equally clear that those companies lack the collaborative research capacities to act as a global player, at least at this stage. Rather, they operate mostly in isolation, without any tradition of working with the local universities – a serious shortcoming, when one considers the contributions that the University of Wisconsin-Madison has made to biotech development and the role that Silicon Valley universities played in advancing computer science.
Milwaukee, by contrast, has failed to generate a meaningful number of patents for water innovations, although the big companies boast their own labs. The Great Lakes WATER Research Institute at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee focuses on ecology, not water-treatment technologies.
Agriculture is one of the biggest components of Wisconsin’s economy. From its farmers to the researchers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, the state is a national leader. But this has always been an “unsung story,” said Roger Cliff, chief administrative officer at the Wisconsin Farm Bureau, a trade organization representing more than 20,000 state farmers.
Like many Americans, I was deeply saddened by the crash of an emergency medical services Eurocopter Dauphin II helicopter last weekend in suburban Washington that killed four people and left another person in critical condition. But as a former chairman of the National Transportation Safety Board, I was not shocked.
EMS helicopters are among the most dangerous aircraft in the skies. While major airline crashes have declined over the past decade, EMS helicopter fatalities have increased. Until this year, the worst annual record belonged to 2004, with 18 killed. So far in 2008 there have been 20 deaths. Clearly, things are getting worse.
STEVENS POINT, Wis. (AP) — University of Wisconsin System leaders say they’ve expanded a program that allows students to earn UW-Madison degrees after spending their first two years at other campuses.
….The participants are young men and women attending colleges, universities and post-secondary schools across the country. They come to look at groups of dairy animals, rank them according to breed standards and explain why they did so to an impartial judge.
Simple?
No, not at all. In fact, it’s a tense, nerve wracking, fingernail biting, heart racing, life defining experience!
A team of researchers from the UW School of Medicine and Public Health has identified a breakdown in the brain’s control tower for obesity — a snarl in a complex molecular messaging system that regulates the body’s food intake and weight.
In a study published Thursday in the Oct. 3 issue of Cell, researchers led by Dongsheng Cai, an assistant professor of physiology, honed in on a part of the brain called the hypothalamus. Smaller than a grape, this tiny structure is charged with a mighty mission: the regulation and control of the body’s metabolism.
UW-Madison students ejected in the past for being drunk at football games will need to blow sober readings Saturday night before being admitted to the big game between the Badgers and the Ohio State Buckeyes.
The “Show and Blow” program started last year to cut down on students showing up inebriated at Camp Randall Stadium.
Hospitals are facing a critical workforce shortage that will only get worse as the state’s population grows. A new report from the Wisconsin Hospital Association said that by 2010 hospitals will be competing with each other for a much smaller pool of workers to fill job vacancies.
The largest percentage of vacancies and the most difficult to fill are in therapist positions, according to the 2008 Health Care Workforce Report released Thursday by the WHA.
Slots for getting proper training fill quickly at colleges, so WHA Vice President Judy Warmuth said expanding slots in college training programs is critical to head off the anticipated shortage of health care professionals.
Mentor Corp. announced Wednesday that a drug it is developing in Madison to compete with the well-known and hugely successful Botox has successfully completed the first of three Phase 3 clinical trials.
….The development of PurTox stems from Mentor’s 2003 deal for an exclusive license from the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation for botulinum toxin technology developed at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Dear Editor:
….How much alcohol should a pregnant woman consume? The only safe amount is none. That $5 million to study monkeys should have been used to actually help people. Let’s stop wasting our limited resources on arcane scientific research that helps no one but the scientist banking the federal grant.
Dawn Kubly, Cambridge
The University of Wisconsin Credit Union announced Wednesday it is making an outright gift of $215,000 to need-based scholarships at UW-Madison.
“I think everyone knows that need-based financial aid is one of my highest priorities,” UW-Madison Chancellor Carolyn “Biddy” Martin said during a Wednesday press conference at the Mechanical Engineering building to announce the gift. “I couldn’t be happier about this announcement.”
In addition, the UW Credit Union will match contributions from its members through the end of 2008.
Those in education have long promoted the value of getting a college education.
But just how much is that higher education degree really worth?
In an effort to better quantify an answer, the University of Wisconsin-Madison has unveiled its Payback Calculator (http://payback.wisc.edu) — a tool that gives prospective and current students, along with their families and high school counselors, some answers related to the financial investment in a university education.
It’s called the biggest dairy event in the world. And it no doubt is.
The name World Dairy Expo describes it well because it is truly a worldwide event. And for five days, Tuesday through Saturday, nearly 70,000 people from dozens of countries, 2,500 dairy cattle from North America and 1,600 commercial exhibits will be centered at the Alliant Energy Center.
When the World Food and Agricultural Exposition opened its doors for the first time in 1967, it was anything but famous or worldly.
Madison-based Stratatech Corp. announced Monday the successful completion of a clinical trial of its StrataGraft human skin substitute. The company said the trial showed StrataGraft performed comparable to the current standard of care.
The clinical trial was designed to evaluate the safety and effectiveness of StrataGraft in patients with major skin trauma that required temporary skin replacement before “autografting” — the transplantation of live skin tissue from one part of a patient’s body to another.
….The University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Michael J. Schurr was the trial’s principal clinical investigator.
A progressive watchdog group is taking the state’s largest business lobby to task for failing to disclose lobbying activity concerning the University of Wisconsin’s budget.
One Wisconsin Now filed a complaint Tuesday with the state Government Accountability Board alleging that Wisconsin Manufacturers and Commerce didn’t disclose lobbying activity a WMC official referred to in an Aug. 20 memo.
The memo, from WMC Vice President for Government Relations James Buchen, was in response to an article in Madison Magazine written by recently retired UW-Madison Chancellor John Wiley that was critical of WMC’s support of uncomprisingly partisan Republican legislators.
Mark Dyer remembers the last time his favorite team traveled to Camp Randall Stadium for a night game. It was Oct. 11, 2003, and he and a group of friends — all students at Ohio State University — decided a road trip to Madison was in order. The University of Wisconsin, ranked No. 23 in the nation, hadn’t beaten the Buckeyes at home in more than 10 years. Meanwhile, the Buckeyes were the third-ranked team in the country, the reigning national champions who came into the game having won 19 games in a row.
But UW snapped Ohio State’s winning streak with a 17-10 victory — and some Badger fans snapped, too. Many Ohio State fans later reported feeling threatened by the drunken crowds, both inside and outside the stadium.
For a half-dozen or so Saturdays each fall over the last 15 years, Jim Luedtke has been at the epicenter of one of Madison’s great traditions — a University of Wisconsin football home game.
As the owner of two popular bars in the shadow of Camp Randall Stadium during that span, he has come to one conclusion.
“There’s no such thing as a bad football day — rain, shine, whatever,” Luedtke said. “It’s to what degree of how good they are, is how I look at it.”
The Wheel is ready to roll.
The UW-Madison television show highlighting university programs will debut on the Big Ten Network at 4 p.m. Thursday.
The 30-minute show is produced by University Communications in collaboration with John Roach Projects, a Fitchburg video production company.
Madison police are investigating a report of a “strange man” who allegedly grabbed a 20-year-old UW-Madison female student, then ran away when she asked him what he was doing.
The incident happened about 10 a.m. Monday in a parking lot in the 120 block of E. Gorham St., as the victim was getting into her car.
