Author: jnweaver

For nearly 10 years in the 1980s and ?90s I worked in UW-Madison?s Ogg Hall. Ogg was populated mostly by freshmen required to live on campus….I’ll bet that many of them, looking back, would not trade the time spent in the dorm for the opportunity to live in a residential “palace.” The incomes of student families then were closer than now to the median for the state. Today most families can’t envision their kids getting into UW, let alone being able to pay for it. This may help explain the frayed support for UW-Madison among many taxpayers.

The Associated Students of Madison will hold a town hall meeting Oct. 10 at 5 p.m. to discuss campus safety issues. According to ASM Press Director David Gardner, the meeting will attempt to bring all stakeholders into one room for a discussion of current project ideas involving ASM?s Campus Safety campaign and possible collaborations. The Madison Police Department, city officials, University of Wisconsin-Madison police and any interested UW-Madison students are invited to attend the meeting.

University police identified the suspect in the Sellery and Cole residence hall theft investigations Wednesday. Investigators questioned Nicholas Suarez, a University of Wisconsin-Madison student, as a person of interest in the early evening of Sept. 26. Shortly after questioning, Suarez confessed he committed the crimes.

Andrew Uehling wakes up to a green-blue view, with a carpet of rooftop grass in the foreground and the waves of Lake Mendota in the distance as he looks out the window of his dormitory.”I like the closeness to the water,” he said. “It?s awesome.” A freshman biomedical engineering major at UW-Madison, Uehling lives in the university?s futuristic $47 million new lakeside dormitory, Dejope Residence Hall.

Two student organizations moved closer to receiving funding Monday when the Student Services Finance Committee voted in favor of allowing both groups student segregated fee funding eligibility. Student groups must devote 51 percent of their time offering direct services, or unique and tailorable educational services available to all students, to receive eligibility.

UW-Madison police are asking students in dormitories to keep their doors locked after a man entered rooms in Sellery Hall and took items from rooms where the residents were sleeping. The thefts happened early Friday morning in the B tower of the residence hall at 821 W. Johnson Street on the UW-Madison campus.

While traveling to class each morning, students can expect a chaotic and stressful exchange between other pedestrians and cyclists, which Madison police say they hope to fix with a new community outreach program. In August, the Madison Police Department introduced the Pedestrian Bicycle Ambassador program, a new educational tool designed to increase communication between pedestrians and bicyclists.

University of Wisconsin-Madison freshman and Sellery resident Caitlin Wagner said she had always felt safe in her dorm room until she woke up one night to find a strange man dressed in black breaking open her door. The UW-Madison Police Department reported an 18- to 20-year-old white male opening the doors of several residents? dorm rooms Sellery Hall?s B Tower, located at 821 W. Johnson St., early Friday morning.

The Madison Police Department?s Central District Community Policing Team is taking to Twitter to communicate with college students and other young adults about topics ranging from out-of-control house parties to bar checks for underage patrons, in 140 characters or less. “Public urination — it?s nasty and it?s a $177 forfeiture,” reads one recent tweet from @MPDCentralCPT.

Thirty University of Wisconsin-Madison College Republicans traveled to Marquette and joined hundreds of enthusiastic supporters to hear Ann Romney, wife of Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney, speak at Marquette University Thursday. The visit is the latest in a recent influx of campaign activity in Wisconsin and underscores the importance of the state in November?s presidential election.