UW on Friday lost starting defensive end Jamal Cooper indefinitely when he was suspended by coach Bret Bielema after the final session of camp.
Bielema was not available for comment but a university release noted that Cooper’s latest suspension was for conduct detrimental to the team.
Yes, there are genuine disagreements among budget conferees, but we note that the legislators still have time to raise campaign funds while the budgeting occurs. Perhaps the time and energy could be better spent doing the peoples business.
Yet another high-end, high-rise apartment building could be going up soon on the UW-Madison campus.
A local real estate group is proposing a 14-story, 169-unit apartment building at the corner of West Johnson and Mills streets.
The project at 1022 W. Johnson would require demolition of two older homes while also encompassing an existing surface parking lot. Parking — always an issue on campus — would be provided underground with space for mopeds, bicycles and 125 vehicles.
Dear Editor: Currently, there are 178 eligible UW-Whitewater students waiting to find out if they will receive financial aid for the coming school year through the Wisconsin Higher Education Grant (WHEG) program. WHEG is a state-funded grant available to eligible undergraduate Wisconsin residents who have demonstrated financial need.
These students are waiting for funding because of the delay in approving the state budget.
Convicted killer Ralph Armstrong has waited 27 years for a new trial, and now may have to wait a little longer.
Armstrong was convicted of the 1980 killing and sexual assault of Charise Kamps, 19, a UW student from Platteville who was found murdered in her apartment on West Gorham Street.
Designers of the UW-Madison’s new Ogg Hall, which opens to 615 students next week, have thought of pretty much everything — security, academics, water conservation, art.
The six-story residence hall at North Park and Dayton streets cost $28 million to construct, with costs for design, green space, art and demolition of the old Ogg bringing the total cost to $36 million.
Former University of Wisconsin guard Kammron Taylor has agreed to play in a top professional basketball league in Spain.
Quoted: Jonathan Martin, chairman of the Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences Department at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
These days, still-lifes often seem banal and are frequently treated as little more than decorative art, the kind of thing that the right room and right furniture needs: some fruit, some flowers. But that wasn’t always the case.
Time was, religious scenes and portraits of aristocrats were much more important and popular.
But like so much that we owe in art, the still-lifes you see at today’s art fairs, museums and galleries owe a lot to the Italian Renaissance and to the figures who dominated politics and business but also supported the arts. But you don’t have to take my word for it.
Starting Friday night, you can see for yourself at the University of Wisconsin ‘s Chazen Museum of Art, 800 University Ave., where a major new imported touring show, “Natura Morta: Still-Life Paintings and the Medici Collections, ” will be on view to the public until Oct. 21.
The downed power line that killed a woman, her toddler, and a would-be rescuer Wednesday afternoon on Madison’s north side also shocked, but did not kill, the woman’s 7-year-old child, authorities said today.
Quoted: Ted Bernstein, UW-Madison emeritus professor of electrical and computer engineering
Tyler Donovan believes he grew as a quarterback on Nov. 11 in front of more than 70,000 of his closest enemies in Kinnick Stadium.
Donovan led UW to a three-point victory over rival Iowa that day, in his first college start. His next start is set to come Sept. 1 against visiting Washington State, likely in front of more than 80,000 of his newest friends.
A University of Wisconsin-Madison training program in a hot area that combines biology and computer science has been awarded another $5.2 million, five-year federal grant.
The Computation and Informatics in Biology and Medicine training program received the grant from the National Library of Science, said George Phillips, a UW-Madison biochemistry professor with an affiliate appointment in computer science who directs the program.
Malicious, self-propagating worms and other lethal attacks are the stuff of Paul Barford’s daily existence.
Since the Web site-defacing Code Red worm in 2001 terrorized computers around the world, the University of Wisconsin-Madison assistant computer science professor has focused on finding ways to defeat such nemeses.
Advocates for the homeless, anxious to inch up their issues on the local political agenda, are stepping in early to lobby for more funding.
The Dane County Homeless Services Consortium, a group of more than 30 agencies serving the homeless, is asking the county and the city of Madison to boost funding for specific services to keep people in housing and assist those already homeless to a total of more than $4.4 million.
….The death of a homeless man in a Madison park in 2004 spawned a flurry of activity demanding more resources for homeless services, led by a group of University of Wisconsin-Madison students who at one point staged a sit-in at Cieslewicz’s office.
University of Wisconsin-Madison administrators will be pleased, but students may be disappointed by the fact that the university was not the No. 1 “party school” in the Princeton Review’s annual rankings.
In fact, the UW didn’t even make the top 20 list, which is developed from a survey of 120,000 students at 366 top colleges in the nation.
….UW-Madison also came in 16th for Best College Newspaper and 18th for Students Pack the Stadiums. The Princeton Review also summarized what UW-Madison students say about the university….
THE QUESTION before us today is why a man who had University of Wisconsin season football tickets for 35 years — 50 yard line seats, no less — would sign off a telephone conversation on Tuesday with this: “Have a great Cougar Tuesday.”
The Cougars, in this instance, are the Washington State Cougars, and as all members of Badger Nation know, those same Cougars are set to invade Camp Randall Sept. 1 for the college football season opener in Madison.
Why should we care? That was a rhetorical question asked by Scott Craven, professor of wildlife ecology at UW-Madison, in leading off the second CWD Stakeholder Advisory Committee meetings in Madison last Saturday.
The meeting, held at Lowell Inn and Conference Center on the UW-Madison campus, drew a surprisingly small public attendance, less than 10 people. However, the reason for the meeting was for the 16-member committee to hear from experts about what is known about chronic wasting disease.
….”I obviously care for both personal and professional reasons, but this issue is just not on people’s radar screen like it was three years ago,” he (Craven) said. “One of the most important challenges that you face, as liaisons to groups of citizens and hunters, is to bring that back.”
(Also mentioned are Chad Johnson, an assistant scientist in the School of Veterinary Medicine, and Joel Pedersen, associate professor of Soil Science.)
Three-fourths of cancerous prostate removal surgeries at the University of Wisconsin Hospital are now performed by a robot. The robot and its very flexible “wrists” are controlled by a surgeon, however.
The first robotic prostatectomy at UW Hospital was performed in March 2006 by urologic surgeon Dr. David Jarrard, who also performed the 200th on July 31 this year.
A Madison man, out on bail for allegedly beating and trying to rape a University of Wisconsin student last August, was charged Tuesday with lewd and lascivious behavior and two counts of felony bail jumping for allegedly exposing himself to two women last Thursday.
….in the 1618 painting of “Two Citrons” by Filippo di Liagno (called Filippo Napoletano), a lemon is more than either just a lemon or just a painting.
That is typical of most of the 43 works you can see in “Natura Morta: Still-Life Painting and the Medici Collections,” a new show of 17th and 18th century works that goes on exhibit Saturday at the University of Wisconsin’s Chazen Museum of Art.
Professor Gail Geiger, who teaches Italian Renaissance art at the UW and specializes in patronage, knows how to decode these paintings and other works of art.
Quoted: David Ahrens, spokesman for the Tobacco Surveillance & Evaluation Program at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Making one of the largest charitable commitments in Milwaukee history, real estate developer Joseph Zilber on Tuesday gave Marquette University a huge boost and set the stage for announcements in coming days of other large gifts.
Mentions that PercipEnz this month signed a major contract to have the University of Wisconsin-Madison implement its system for all research, not just cancer research
Forget Paris. Today’s kids increasingly want to speak the languages of Beijing and Baghdad.
In Wisconsin and nationwide, the study of Chinese and Arabic remains dwarfed by long-taught counterparts like French, German and Spanish. But they are gaining a toehold.
While some dismiss the trend as short-lived, akin to the Sputnik-era rush to learn Russian, and some media reports suggest a post-September 11 wave of interest in Arabic has already waned, others foresee a long-term shift.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison has for the second year been named on the Hartwell Foundation’s list of top 10 biomedical research centers.
The ambitious plans of University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Chancellor Carlos Santiago are clear – build a new research park and engineering campus on the Milwaukee County Grounds in Wauwatosa.
Santiago and others see the campus as a key part of a plan to help transform the region economically and think it would lead to new opportunities for engineering graduates and help attract talent to the area.
How such a campus – 12 miles away from the main university – would affect the daily lives of UWM students and their education experience remains hazy. What a satellite campus would include is on the minds of engineering students, faculty and administrators and local officials.
It wasn’t that long ago when few people embraced alternative medical practices such as chiropractic services, acupuncture and massage.
Today, such services, like many advanced traditional medical practices, are moving into the mainstream of pet care as more and more people pamper their pets — although medical care isn’t seen on the same plane as some other pampering practices.
Quoted: Dr. Sandi Sawchuk, School of Veterinary Medicine
Whether climate change has caused the extreme weather we’ve experienced in recent weeks — near-drought followed by heavy rain — is a subject of debate among scientists.
A study by the Union of Concerned Scientists and the Ecological Society of America in 2005 said Wisconsin’s climate was warming, that extreme heat would occur more often and long periods of flooding rains may increase. John Magnuson, UW-Madison professor emeritus, helped write that study and definitely believes that global warming is causing more extreme weather.
Quoted: Jonathan Martin, chair of the UW-Madison Department of Atmospheric Sciences
Golfers use their clubs to swat a ball off of a man’s nose. Alice in Dairyland gets a ride on a Harley. An all-girl band performs for cows at the UW, to persuade them to churn out more milk.
This is life in Madison, but not as you know it today.
….”Historic Photos of Madison” (Turner Publishing Co., $39.95) by Donald J. Johnson personalizes our past in a way that will make you chuckle and wonder. He is a senior editor at the UW and heads library communications. Most book images come from the Wisconsin Historical Society archives.
She got bed bugs three different times — the itching nearly drove her bonkers, she says — and is still taking medication for a stomach parasite she apparently got from the drinking water.
She spent every weekend for four months hauling bags of sand and gravel, sawing hundreds of rebars by hand and mixing concrete while helping construct a new crafts workshop for the Mantay Women’s Housing Project, which provides jobs, education, health care and a secure place to live for 15 single Peruvian moms — all victims of rape….
Dear Editor: I read a letter of welcome in the souvenir program for the 2007 State High School Tennis Tournament and wanted you to know we are not all made to feel welcome.
….The point I would like to address concerns myself, a senior citizen, as well as anyone who is handicapped. I cannot understand why the building has no accommodations for individuals with such needs — no ramps, elevators, nearby parking, bathroom facilities. What would the cost be if someone were injured as opposed to the cost of updating the facility?
There was nothing unusual about Kim Royston’s journey across the Interstate 35W bridge over the Mississippi River on the evening of Aug. 1.
It was a slow ride, but that wasn’t shocking considering the brutal combination of rush-hour traffic and closed lanes on the bridge due to construction. At least Royston had company; three of his buddies were along for the ride, helping him enjoy his final few days of freedom in his hometown of Minneapolis before he reported back to Madison for the start of the University of Wisconsin football team’s fall training camp.
Adam Mania went from smalltown Hickman, Neb., to swimming stardom at the University of Wisconsin to the pinnacle of his sport when he competed for Poland at the 2004 Olympic Games.
Far from satisfied, he wants to make it back to the Olympics in 2008, but this time as a member of the powerhouse U.S. team.
University of Wisconsin coach Bret Bielema was beaming when he met with reporters after practice Friday night.
The reason? His tailback corps grew by one as freshman John Clay, the touted prep All-American from Racine Park High School, practiced for the first time in camp.
More proof has arrived that Wisconsin boasts some of the best schools in America. In half the states, at least half the students in the high school graduating class of 2007 took the ACT, one of the nation’s two major college-entrance exams. Among those states, Wisconsin tied Iowa for second place in average score. Only Minnesota bested them, and just by a sliver.
But Wisconsin’s high ranking does mask trouble spots, including worrisome results for non-white students. What’s more, not enough of such students take the exam.
At most times the Raven Nature Trail is a pleasant and not overly strenuous 1.5-mile interpretive trail through the Northern Highland-American Legion State Forest, a few miles from the busy resort communities of Minocqua and Woodruff. But this summer, and continuing into the fall, the trail has been converted to a sort of outdoor gallery for international artists as part of Forest Art Wisconsin, a collaboration of the University of Wisconsin-Madison and Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources Division of Forestry.
Dear Editor: As a huge Badgers fan and UW alumnus, I’m excited by the prospect of a new TV network that will deliver all the Big Ten sports I love. It would especially be great if those with only expanded basic cable could catch Big Ten action without having to pay extra to see it on premium channels. So I hope the Big Ten Network is allowed to be part of expanded basic cable.
Mike Gomoll, Sun Prairie
….Effectively what is playing out here is an irresponsible game of chicken. The regents set a tuition rate that was too high, which was disappointing. Republicans in the Legislature countered with their own, somewhat lower, rate; but they provided no promise of new money to ensure that the UW System is adequately funded.
In the end, there is a distinct lack of adult behavior on display. It strikes us that some senior Republicans in the Legislature, such as state Sen. Mike Ellis, R-Neenah, need to start working with the more politically savvy regents, such as (Tom) Loftus, to develop a plan that holds down tuition rates while ensuring that the UW System has the money it needs to provide a first-class education to Wisconsinites who seek college degrees.
A 28-year-old Madison man was charged today with making a visual representation by taking nude pictures of fellow workers at the University of Wisconsin’s Russell Laboratory without their knowledge.
Women workers told UW detectives they were “creeped out,” when they found out Elliot Schwab had taken photos of them, including photos taken beneath their skirts, according to a criminal complaint filed against Schwab today.
The incidents occurred in the Ag Hall and while most of the pictures were taken of Schwab’s co-workers and grad students, at least some were taken of a visiting pathologist.
With Iowa’s first-in-the nation presidential caucuses less than five months away, some UW-Madison students are already hoping to spread their Obamania to the neighboring Hawkeye State.
Even before classes start, the campus chapter of Students for Obama has begun recruiting volunteers from Madison to contact their peers in Iowa in support of Democratic U.S. Sen. Barack Obama’s presidential bid in the critical Jan. 14 vote. The Obama group is the first to begin organizing for next year’s presidential race; typically, the UW has been a major source of votes for Democratic candidates.
If you had to guess today, youd say the Big Ten Network will launch on Aug. 30 without gaining a presence on some of the major cable television carriers in the nation.
If you had to guess, youd say that the BTN and Time Warner Cable will not strike a deal by then, which means most viewers in the state of Wisconsin will not have access.
Charter Communications, which serves much of the Madison market, also has not reached agreement with the BTN.
Four very different art shows are now on view at the UW Memorial Union, 800 Langdon St., and each has its attraction and should draw viewers as Labor Day approaches, school begins again and the Union buzzes with activity.
Dear Editor: The Badgers are incredibly popular in Madison and throughout the entire state. Hundreds of thousands of people, if not millions, regularly watch Badger games and keep up with their favorite local sports team.
Many of us loyal Badger fans are looking forward to the launch of the Big Ten Network on Aug. 30 and can’t wait to see the Badgers in action when they take on the Citadel on Sept. 15. I just hope that we’ll be able to watch this game on our television.
The plan to water down Madison’s downtown by limiting the number of liquor licenses in the central commercial district continues to get watered down.
After several members of the business community asked for further amendments to the Alcohol Beverage License Density Plan, as it is officially called, the Alcohol License Review Committee on Wednesday voted to loosen one of the proposal’s primary restrictions.
A tuition reciprocity deal between Minnesota and Wisconsin won approval Thursday from Wisconsin’s budget-writing committee, sealing the deal that had been worked out between the two states.
The Minnesota board that governs most of that state’s two- and four-year schools approved it last month.
The deal reached between the state’s two governors in June extends a long-standing agreement allowing students to get in-state rates if they attend college across the border.
Jacob Krebs knew the man he was chasing wasn ‘t going to get away. In the midst of the chase, the guy tried to light a cigarette.
Krebs, a UW-Madison junior and Navy ROTC member, was rudely awakened about 1:30 a.m. today when a car slammed into his apartment at 125 N. Randall Ave. It turned out the car that hit his porch had recently come off the Beltline, where police had been chasing it at speeds approaching 100 mph.
UW-Madison student Andrew Parkhurst says his summer internship in southern California’s movie mecca is essential to his future career. But it wouldn’t have been possible without an alumni-funded scholarship arranged through the University of Wisconsin.
“It was the only way to make it out here, considering tuition and loan costs. I was unable to take on more debt,” said Parkhurst, 23, of Waukesha, whose scholarship organized by the Communication Arts Department and the UW Foundation enabled him to accept the internship with Columbia Pictures in Culver City, Calif.
Bedbugs are back, with a vengeance.
The tiny night-time bloodsuckers were common in Madison and elsewhere in the United States in the 1940s, until DDT ended the threat. But the insecticide damaged wildlife and was banned in the U.S. in 1972, and in recent years travelers brought bedbugs back, according to Phil Pellitteri, a UW-Extension entomologist affiliated with the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
A chemical family known as synthetic pyrethroid has been used to get rid of the unwelcome pests, but they have developed resistance to it, he added.
Campus safety initiatives may have to be put on hold at some schools in the University of Wisconsin System in the face of possible budget reductions, some campus leaders say.
The Commission on University Security – convened by UW System President Kevin Reilly after the shootings at Virginia Tech – last month released its recommendations for ensuring school safety. It noted that only two campuses, UW-Madison and UW-Milwaukee, have “full-service law enforcement agencies,” and recommended that all four-year campuses in the system have armed university police 24 hours a day, seven days a week. Story quotes Dale Burke, assistant police chief at UW-Madison.
When two University of Wisconsin-Whitewater business professors head to India, they will face a daunting task of helping silk-sari weavers find a way out of poverty that has driven some of them to commit suicide.
Chris Pressley has undergone a few changes since you last saw him on the football field. The University of Wisconsin junior fullback is lighter, healthier and armed with a broader and deeper appreciation for cultural diversity.
NEW YORK (AP) — A member of the Rutgers women’s basketball team has sued Don Imus and CBS, claiming the radio personality’s sexist and racist comments about the team damaged her reputation.
Kia Vaughn filed the lawsuit alleging slander and defamation of character in state Supreme Court in the Bronx Tuesday, the same day Imus settled with CBS Radio in a deal that pre-empts his threatened $120 million breach-of-contract lawsuit against CBS. The settlement allows him to make a comeback bid at a new station.
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Indiana University and the human-powered Internet search engine ChaCha are partnering to create a one-stop virtual reference desk that connects students with an array of experts and other help.
They will debut a Web-based search platform this semester allowing students, faculty and others to look for information using a machine-based search that marks the results recommended by IU experts. Visitors who need help finding information or refining their search can chat online with an expert in real time.
Madison public school students’ average scores on the ACT college admissions exam outpace those of their counterparts statewide, even as Wisconsin performs well compared to other states.
The average composite score of Madison public high school students on the national test was 24.6 over the 2006-07 school year, the best showing the district has had since it began keeping ACT records 22 years ago. Nearly 70 percent of high school students in Madison took the test last year.
Dear Editor: Stop the presses! The Capital Times has discovered that sports leagues are greedy. What a shocking revelation.
….The Capital Times has sat silently by for the last two years as both the NFL and the Big Ten attempt to squeeze even more money out of cable subscribers by establishing their own cable networks. Apparently ever-rising ticket prices and special seating fees aren’t enough to satisfy their ever-growing appetites.
University students aren’t the only ones who have to deal with the frantic, traffic-choked, junk-strewn atmosphere on moving days, when apartment leases end on Aug. 14 and begin again the next day.
Professional movers also carry a lot of the weight of the ordeal, though they didn’t have to worry about finding a place to sleep Tuesday night.
According to the Big Ten schedule released Tuesday, the University of Wisconsin men’s basketball team will face conference rivals Michigan State and Ohio State just once each.
The Badgers open the conference season on Jan. 2 at Michigan and then play five of their next seven games at home. The Big Ten home opener is Jan. 5 against Iowa.
Wisconsin boosted its participation rate and average score on the ACT college admissions test for the high school graduating class of 2007 – tying Iowa for second place among states where at least half of the students take the test.
Dear Editor: Many veterans could be affected by the reduction of benefits in the state budget. The proposed changes reduce the amount of benefits that the governor signed into law on Memorial Day 2006.
A consensus emerged within hours of Mayor Dave Cieslewicz’s Monday afternoon decision to abandoned his streetcar proposal that his action will help bring a Regional Transportation Authority, and thus commuter rail, into existence.
