If all goes well soon people in the area won’t even have to open their mouths to tip off authorities to crime in the area.
They’ll be able to let their thumbs do the talking.
It seems like it’s everywhere now a days.
Kelsey Dalnymple a Senior at the UW says, ” It’s becoming more difficult not to text.”
The University of Wisconsin Marching Band learned once again last week that what happens in Michigan does not stay in Michigan.
After allegations of hazing surfaced last Friday afternoon, Band Director Mike Leckrone suspended the band indefinitely, including during last Saturdayâ??s football game against Ohio State. According to Leckrone, the hazing allegations are alcohol-related and involve inappropriate sexual conduct. The situation appears to be very similar to misconduct on another trip to Ann Arbor two years ago.
Allegations of hazing, alcohol abuse and sexual misconduct got the University of Wisconsin marching band suspended last weekend, making the Badgers the latest in a long line of college bands that have had to face the music for their missteps.
1967: The Columbia University band is banned by the Ivy League from performing at any athletic event after its “A Tribute to Birth Control” show, in which band members formed the shape of a condom and played “I Hear You Knockin’ (But You Can’t Come In).”
On Tuesday night, a Pulitzer Prize-winning historian, a university president, two MacArthur Foundation â??Geniusesâ? and a Japanese senator were presented with the award that bares Crossâ??s name for outstanding achievement in one of his many fields.
Honoree Laura L. Kiessling GRD â??89 is renowned for merging chemistry and biology by designing and synthesizing replicas of natural molecules central to life processes. She is a professor at the University of Wisconsin, where she has worked since 1991.
She was unable to attend Tuesdayâ??s ceremony because of a death in the family.
Quoted: Douglas Laube, chair of obstetrics and gynecology, University of Wisconsin-Madison.
The University of Minnesota has concluded that falsified data were used in a 2001 article published by one of its pioneering researchers on adult stem cells.
The stunning admission followed an 18-month investigation into research published by Dr. Catherine Verfaillie, an internationally known stem-cell expert.
A Dane County Judge denied a request from Brittany Zimmerman’s family to access information on the murder investigation for a civil lawsuit they are pursuing against a Madison rental company.
Attorneys for Zimmerman’s parents requested any and all information from Madison Police, the Dane County 9-1-1 Center, and UW Police about the murder.
Only a small percentage of women in the country have breast reconstruction surgery after a mastectomy. A survey of Wisconsin surgeons examined the attitudes and biases which may affect breast cancer patients.
A third of respondents do not routinely refer eligible patients to further discuss having an implant or other reconstruction after breast cancer. However, the study published in the Wisconsin Medical Journal says a referral was more likely to be made if a woman expressed concerns about her appearance. (6th item.)
Doctors in the survey said the biggest deciding factor for them was cancer recurrence and worries that an implant or reconstruction might make it harder to detect. One of the report’s authors, Dr. Heath Stacey from UW Madison, says there’s evidence to the contrary. He also says other factors in the decision to refer vary from where someone lives and how old they are.
Each year, Dr. Marcia Slattery, a child and adolescent psychiatrist with UW Health, said she and her colleagues treat hundreds of children who are anxious about school-related issues, including homework. For some, the problem is limited to homework. For others, homework exacerbates an existing anxiety disorder or indicates other problems, such as attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder or an underlying learning problem.
UW-Madison students are smart to step up scrutiny of the excessive fees they pay on top of tuition.
Student fees at UW-Madison have more than doubled over the last decade, from $404 to $890.
That’s a much faster rate of growth than inflation or personal income in Wisconsin. And it makes affording college that much harder for ordinary students.
Finance professor Mark Ready at the UW-Madison School of Business agreed that part of Monday’s decline resulted from problems in Europe. “The global economy is starting to look weaker than everyone had anticipated,” said Ready, academic director of the university’s Stephen L. Hawk Center for Applied Security Analysis.
“Some of the European institutions bought securities backed by U.S. mortgages, but there also have been declines in European housing markets,” Ready said.
Don Nichols, UW-Madison professor emeritus of economics and public affairs, said much of the fear revolves around the liquidity position of banks, and that has not yet been solved. Even with passage of the bailout plan, it will take time to assess which of the mortgage-backed securities the banks invested in are worth buying.
“The Treasury Department is only going to buy the good ones, not dump taxpayer money on losers,” Nichols said. “It’s going to take time to determine which have intrinsic value. So we’re in sort of a holding pattern.”
Ellen Foley is stepping down as the top editor of the Wisconsin State Journal, ending a four-year tenure in which the newspaper strengthened its Internet journalism and refocused its coverage of Madison in the face of industry challenges.
James L. Baughman, director of the UW-Madison School of Journalism and Mass Communication, noted that Foley led the State Journal during a time in which newspapers around the country faced financial pressures and staff cuts as they struggled to hold onto their readers.
“She’s had to take chances that an editor 30 or 40 years ago wouldn’t have had to take,” he said.
BEAVER DAM, Wis. (AP) – Authorities say a young Watertown man’s desire for a sports car led him to kill the owner who had it up for sale and later commit suicide as police were closing in on him.
Two other young people are jailed in the killing of 31-year-old University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee student and businessman Haroon Khan, who was reported missing last Wednesday night.
Quoted: “Given how cluttered the airwaves are with information about the economic situation . . . it’s going to be hard to move it from its trajectory unless we get blatantly new information,” said Ken Goldstein, a political scientist at the University of Wisconsin.
The University of Wisconsin may not permit members of the Penn State Blue Band to play at this Saturday’s football game at Wisconsin, a Blue Band official said Monday.
The Blue Band plans to send a smaller pep band to Wisconsin this weekend, but the Wisconsin athletic department has not confirmed if the band will be allowed to play during the football game, Blue Band Director Richard Bundy said Monday.
MADISON â?? A student-run UW-Madison committee has decided that the 37-year old student organization Vets for Vets won’t get funding through student fees.
The group has typically gotten about $40,000 to fund resources for student veterans, which includes benefit counseling and help with the transition into civilian and student life.
MADISON, Wis. — Wisconsin could learn as soon as Tuesday whether the UW-Madison marching band will be allowed to perform this weekend.
The band was suspended on Friday after allegations of hazing surfaced.
When it comes to building a top-notch faculty, racing to land prominent scholars is only half the battle for colleges. The other half: Fighting off poachers intent on swiping the college’s existing talented midcareer professors.
At Cornell University, a $35-million gift announced by officials in late September will give the institution an edge in an increasingly competitive market for faculty members. It will be used for endowed professorships to be awarded universitywide. One of these positions has already been used to hold onto a prominent chemist who was being wooed by another Ivy League university.
UW Band Director Mike Leckrone told WISC-TV on Monday that he made the right decision in suspending the band from Saturday’s home Badger game against Ohio State.
It’s the first time in the director’s nearly 40-year history that the marching band did not perform at a home game.
Leckrone told News 3 that while his decision may have been somewhat, impetuous â?? he is comfortable with it and believes he did the right thing.
UW-Madison marching band director Mike Leckrone told 27 News the suspension of the band for the Oct. 4 home football game against Ohio State was tied to alleged band misconduct last month in connection to the band’s trip to play at the Michigan game in Ann Arbor.
Leckrone also told 27 News his unprecedented step of stopping the band form performing also stemmed from an alleged pattern of hazing he only learned about last week. “There were situations that we saw evidence that there was some kind of hazing going on from the beginning of the school year.”
Graduate students and professors at the University of Illinois no longer need worry that a bumper sticker supporting John McCain â?? or Barack Obama or Ralph Nader or anyone else, for that matter â?? puts them in violation of the stateâ??s ethics law, the university systemâ??s president, B. Joseph White, said in an e-mail message to faculty and staff members this afternoon. The university will â??preserve, protect, and defendâ? the constitutional freedoms of speech and assembly of every employee, as well as academic freedom, he wrote.
When I listen to some politicians that support stem cell research, especially embryonic stem cell research, I understand why stem cell research pioneers like Dr. James Thomson try to be realistic when talking about its potential benefits, and the timetable on which these benefits will reach us.
It is the political season, and in the coming weeks we’ll hear a lot about the potential cures and treatments that stem cell research could produce. Be prepared, however, for snake oil salesmen (and women) that trot out families whose members suffer from debilitating conditions and make it sound as though stem cell research will produce cures that are just around the corner.
The allegations sound like the exploits of Mötley Crüe:
Women and men stripping to their underwear on a tour bus.
Drunken band members urinating in elevators.
A drummer giving lap dances.
Such behavior was routine for the University of California at Davisâ?? Cal Aggie Marching Band, according to the student groupâ??s director. And, as the San Francisco Chronicle reported Monday, Director Tom Slabaugh found he had little power to stop the madness, even after filing a sexual harassment complaint against his own band.
When he was hired as director of the loud, rowdy Cal Aggie Marching Band at UC Davis, nobody told Tom Slabaugh about the tradition of “naked van.”
But on last year’s road trip to the football game with Portland State, a trumpet player yelled “naked van!” and everybody in the vehicle – men and women alike – stripped to their underwear.
Points of Departure: A Concert of Early Works and Premieres, a Li Chiao-Ping Dance presentation at the Margaret H’Doubler Performance Space on campus last weekend, proves yet again that Li, a UW dance prof, is one of the country’s most interesting second-wave postmodern choreographers.
The evening was bookended by works set to experimental composer Steve Reich’s three-movement suite Different Trains, dark poems to World War II. Both pieces worked well with Li’s new company (only Robin Baartman returns this season). The first, “Points of Departure,” a Madison premiere choregraphed in 1990, took its cues from the Trains suite’s first two movements, “America â?? Before the War” and “Europe â?? During the War.” As the sound images of the dome-car Zephyrs that linked the U.S. coast-to-coast in the 1940s and ’50s gave way to the death trains of Europe, the choreography evoked a jig, train crossing signals, then flailing and horror. The dancers were in shoulder-stands at the end, legs crossed overhead like swastikas.
MADISON, Wis. — The No. 18-ranked University of Wisconsin football team will host No. 14. Ohio State Saturday night on prime-time TV, but the late start is presenting a security challenge.
It’s a battle between two ranked teams in the Big Ten on a national stage, and everyone from the players, to the fans, to the bars are getting ready.
MADISON â?? The University of Wisconsin marching band has been suspended indefinitely while allegations of hazing, alcohol abuse and sexual misconduct are investigated.
The band wonâ??t play tonight during a nationally televised football game between the No. 18 Badgers and No. 14 Ohio State at Camp Randall Stadium.
University of Wisconsin officials interviewed members of the university Marching Band one at a time Saturday as part of their investigation into â??serious hazing allegations,â? officials said.
Staffers in the UW-Madison dean of studentsâ?? office began meeting Friday night with the 300-plus members of the band, and the interviews continued Saturday, UW-Madison spokeswoman Amy Toburen said.
Quoted: R. Alta Charo, a professor of law and bioethics at the University of Wisconsin at Madison. “Most IVF clinics are not hooked up to a research team and they may not be able to refer couples to a clinic who can do it for them,” she says.
It’s not unusual for video game players to speak of a routine that involves ordering pizza, getting a sugar jolt, and then playing “World of Warcraft” for hours.
But the person talking in this case is Constance Steinkuehler, an educational researcher at UW-Madison who organized an afterschool group for boys to play, for educational purposes, the massively multiplayer online role-playing game.
Quoted: For several years, Wisconsin enjoyed a near monopoly on specialty cheeses, according to Brian Gould, a professor in the Department of Agriculture and Applied Economics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
VANCOUVER – Experts are welcoming a study that suggests the pine beetles devastating large tracts of North American forests could be a treasure trove of new antibiotics.
Researchers from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and Harvard Medical School have isolated a new antibiotic compound in the bacterium associated with the southern pine beetle, a close relative of British Columbia’s mountain pine beetle.
Quoted: “When people settle a new area, there’s not a set accent,” said Joe Salmons, director of the Center for the Study of Upper Midwestern Cultures at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. “And it takes several generations for a new accent to form. What that means is, she was raised in an environment where … Upper Midwestern influences were going to be very strong.”
A couple of weeks ago, UW-Madison Police Officer Truli Bertram saw a man taking a table from the Memorial Union at about 2:15 a.m.
When Bertram tried to stop the man, the suspect ran off.
After 22-year-old Zachary Raff was later caught, he reportedly said he took the table so he could play a drinking game called beer pong in the street. He also said he could not recall how he got into the locked Union, according to police.
As a student in my final year at UW-Madison, I am proud of our campus and all that it represents.
The 2008 football season has been a wonderful opportunity for me to show my pride by helping Wisconsin and visiting team fans enjoy their game-day experience at Camp Randall Stadium. I have been able to do this because I am the coordinator of the university’s Rolling Out the Red Carpet program.
MADISON, Wis. – A University of Wisconsin-Madison junior has started a new magazine that’s now available throughout the city.
“Red” is the brainchild of editor-in-chief Sydney Burdick and geared toward University of Wisconsin-Madison students.
The cover story of Red’s premiere issue focuses on students who have made an impact on the campus community.
Quoted: “Being very popular but among a low turnout group like the young under 30 isn’t as valuable to you in terms of votes cast as it might be to have a smaller advantage but to have it among the high turnout older groups,” said Charles Franklin, a political science professor at the University of Wisconsin, Madison.
STEVENS POINT, Wis. – 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 Connections program creates another route to a degree from the state’s flagship university. Students who are qualified for UW-Madison but turned away because of space limitations enroll at other schools before transferring as juniors.
Madison (WKOW)– 27 News has learned the entire UW Marching Band has been suspended. That means, no band for the game against Ohio State.
The mother of a band member told 27 News Friday night, the band was informed Friday afternoon by band director Mike Leckrone that something happened during last weeks trip to Michigan.
Band director Mike Lekrone suspended all UW band members yesterday after serious hazing allegations.
It’s the first time in 40 years the UW band won’t be leading the crowd from the stands of Camp Randall.
Fans say it’s a dispiriting moment in Badger history.
MADISON (WKOW) — When you’re on the operating table, your life is literally in your surgeon’s hands.
A UW study discovered surgeons with smaller hands are at a disadvantage, because the tools they use are one-size-fits-all.
Surgeons perform life-saving operations everyday at UW hospital, many done laparscopically
Badger tailgate parties are missing a pregame staple Saturday.
The UW-Marching Band is not be performing before or during the game because of an investigation into hazing allegations.
This suspension was handed down last night and it comes as a bombshell to fans attending the game and even many of the band members themselves.
MADISON, Wis. — Fans expected — and got — a quieter Camp Randall on Saturday night as the University of Wisconsin’s Marching Band was not there to lend its boisterous support.
The area normally reserved for the band was replaced Saturday with about 350 UW seniors, beneficiaries of the school’s decision to fill the area instead of having an empty reminder of what has transpired with the band over the last couple of days.
MADISON, Wis. — Saturday was a difficult night for Badger fans — not only was there a loss to Ohio State, and the band was suspended, but Madison police also cracked down on drunk and disorderly fans.
Police issued 32 underage alcohol citations along with two disorderly conduct citations.
Proposed changes to the University of Wisconsin System student conduct code that would expand administrators’ ability to punish students for off-campus misconduct advanced to the next stage today.
The Board of Regents voted this morning to send the proposed changes to Chapters 17 and 18 of the administrative code to the Legislative Council for review. A university review committee has solicited feedback on the changes but has not held a public hearing.
MADISON â?? A regent involved in the failed University of Wisconsin-Parkside chancellor search said Friday he and his colleagues lack enough information to make good hiring decisions.
Michael Falbo of Milwaukee said regents recommend who to hire for top campus jobs after interviewing the finalists, which does not provide them with an understanding of who would be best for the job.
“I’ve found that I didn’t feel capable of making a decision after spending about a half hour or 45 minutes with each candidate one right after another,” Falbo told his colleagues on the 18-member Board of Regents during a meeting at UW-Stevens Point.
The UW Credit Union is providing scholarship money for students. UW Credit Union president and CEO, Paul Kundert, says the credit union is giving some $600,000, including $215,000 for UW Madison, to provide need-based scholarships for low and moderate income students.
UW students ejected from Badger football games for drunken rowdiness can get a second chance. Assistant Dean of Students “Kipp” Cox says the “Show and Blow” program allows those students to gain admission by taking a breath test. The program impacts only students who have been ejected from Camp Randall for alcohol-related reasons, requiring them to come to all subsequent games completely sober if they are underage or legally sober if they are of age.
Quoted: There is still little research on whether students ultimately absorb information better by playing games. â??I actually think reading is pretty great and can compete with video games easily,â? said Mark S. Seidenberg, a professor at the University of Wisconsin in Madison who specializes in reading research.
(UNDATED) A new website directed at universities lets users view detailed maps of crimes on or around their campus. But some security officials question just how well they work.
UCrime.com launched in August, and features about 200 colleges and universities in North America and England so far. The U-W Madison is the only Wisconsin school currently on the site. Its map shows various icons: a gun signifies a shooting; fists indicate assault; and cartoon figures with black masks represent robberies.
Accuracy and timeliness are two concerns some officials have about UCrime.com, including Dale Burke, assistant chief of the U-W Madison police. (5th item.)
Students and professors at the University of Illinois decided to rally for Barack Obama on the Urbana-Champaign campus Thursday to make clear their stand on an increasingly controversial question as the November elections approach: Is it legal for employees and students at state colleges to express support for political candidates while on campus?
Professor Lorin Arthur Uffenbeck, Emeritus Professor of French at the University of Wisconsin – Madison died in his Chicago home on Tuesday, Sept. 30, 2008. He received his undergraduate, graduate and doctorate degrees from the University of Wisconsin – Madison and served first as associate professor (1965-1969), and then professor of French and Italian until his retirement in 1994.
A member of the UW Athletic Board is resigning because he said the oversight committee has become a rubber stamp for the will of the UW Athletic Department.
Jeremi Suri, a history professor who was named one of America’s top young innovators by the Smithsonian Institute, emerged as a voice of dissent on the board in recent years.
Southern pine beetles get by with a little help from their friends, including a newly discovered bacterium that makes a weed killer.
When the beetles burrow into trees to lay eggs, they leave behind spores that sprout into a garden of fungal baby food. Now electron microscopy, beetle sampling and lab tests suggest that the female beetles also mix in helpful strains of bacteria, says Jarrod Scott of the University of Wisconsinâ??Madison.
A short-term investment fund that holds $34 million from 10 private Wisconsin colleges restricted cash withdrawals this week amid the national credit crunch, leaving some schools to find other ways to pay operating costs.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Overeating makes the brain go haywire, prompting a cascade of damage that may cause diabetes, heart disease and other ills, U.S. researchers reported on Thursday.
Eating too much appears to activate a usually dormant immune system pathway in the brain, sending out immune cells to attack and destroy invaders that are not there, Dongsheng Cai of the University of Wisconsin-Madison and colleagues found.
The discovery of another way in which the body appears to control how much it eats could shed fresh light on obesity.
US researchers said poor diets may trigger a signalling system which prompts the body to consume even more.
The latest “pathway” under investigation, by scientists at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, is normally associated with the immune system, and inflammation, one of the body’s defence systems.
Quoted: Professor Ken Goldstein of the University of Wisconsin-Madison, who oversees a project that studies political advertising, said both sides started the summer running hard in Michigan, but polls soured for McCain after the Wall Street collapse.
In a city renowned for its Halloween celebrations, the UW-Madison’s annual Giant Pumpkin Regatta has emerged as one of the most inspired hoots of the season — albeit one that is not without its haunted hazards. Now marking its fourth year, this contest of the gourds is scheduled to hit Lake Mendota off the Memorial Union Terrace this Saturday, October 4.
Starting at noon, students paddling enormous hollowed-out pumpkins — buoyed by tractor-tire inner-tubes — will face off in a series of races between the piers at the Terrace. The event is organized by UW horticulture professors Jim Nienhuis and Irwin Goldman in cooperation with the Hoofer Sailing Club, a handy group to have around considering what happened during the event’s inaugural year.
JANESVILLE, Wis. — The cost of going to college keeps rising, and the current credit crunch isn’t helping students trying to further their education.
Some two-year schools are being abandoned by lenders.
Anyone applying for a loan, for anything, knows getting one isn’t as easy as it used to be.
The same goes for college students who are depending on student loans for their future.
Students like Ana Maria Perez simply have fewer options.
