Each fall, thousands of new University of Wisconsin students pile into the dorms. Fresh out of high school, many of these students are anxious to live far from the watchful eye of their parents for the first time.
But for many of UWâ??s military veteran students, on-campus housing options may not be the best fit.
The University of Wisconsin-Madisonâ??s senior class president pled guilty Friday to misdemeanor theft of less than $2,500 at the Dane County Courthouse.
Oliver Delgado, who was elected to his office in April, admitted to stealing six Van Galder bus tickets from Memorial Union last March.
Thinking about ways to spend $30 at several very special campus locations can be pretty fun.
I could buy several paperbacks at the University Bookstore â?? or if Iâ??m lucky maybe a used textbook. I could purchase a series of meals at the Union and maybe even pick up a sandwich from the Ingraham Deli if Iâ??m feeling adventurous. I might hit up the Digital Outpost and pick up some good quality headphones.
The second season of â??Show and Blow,â? a program through the Offices of the Dean of Students to help curb high-risk drinking at UW-Madison home football games, will resume Saturday.
Launched in fall 2007, Show and Blow requires students with a previous alcohol-related ejection to blow into a portable Breathalyzer test before subsequent games to prove their sobriety.
Underage students need to blow a .00 for admittance, while those over 21 need to blow below .08 percent. Studentsâ?? names added to Show and Blow do not carry over from year to year.
Last fall, the Offices of the Dean of Studentâ??s introduced â??Show and Blow,â? a program intended to curb excessive drinking by students on Badger football game days.
Noble in its intent, Show and Blow required all students previously arrested for belligerent behavior at Camp Randall to take a Breathalyzer test upon entering the stadium for the remainder of the season. To enter, previously cited fans under 21 needed to blow a .00, while those of age needed to register below the legal limit of .08.
Days before a University of Wisconsin System Board of Regents committee started meeting to decide on the next chancellor at UW-Madison in May, Gov. Jim Doyle interviewed the four finalists for the position over the phone. He then passed his thoughts about the candidates along to the committee.
The governorâ??s interviews have predictably caused some to speculate that Doyle played a role in the selection process, which ended with the committee choosing former Cornell Provost Biddy Martin to succeed John Wiley.
As a college student in your late teens or early twenties, your mind is probably a seething cesspool of emotion. Thrust into relative autonomy at the start of college, then into the responsibility of shaping your unpredictable and largely uncontrollable future towards the end, your brain squirms with all the problems that occur in between â?? choosing a major and career, dealing with difficult roommates, hormonal relationships and schoolwork, to name a few. If you feel overwhelmed by these issues, fear not. The University of Wisconsin-Madison offers its students free individual counseling sessions through University Health Services to help you address your personal issues.
In one of the last moves of his chancellorship of the University of Wisconsin-Madison, John Wiley took aim at the state Legislature and business lobby group Wisconsin Manufacturers and Commerce in a recent column for Madison Magazine last week. Wiley accused the Legislature of producing a â??hyper-politicized environmentâ? and pointed to WMC as one of the main culprits responsible for the lack of funding for the UW System.
Last month, the leaders of roughly 100 American universities convened in Raleigh, N.C., to discuss efforts to lower the national drinking age of 21. Although the Amethyst Initiative, as it is called, has yet to articulate sound alternatives to current law, its core message â?? that 21 is not working â?? is worthy of serious consideration.
In Springfieldâ??s 15th annual community leadership visit to Madison, Wis., business and community leaders saw a city similar to their own, but on a larger scale. And the differences are things Springfield leaders would aspire to.
A group of 45 delegates from Springfield took the trip north Aug. 14â??16 to compare the two cities and touch on topics ranging from business-college partnerships to quality of life issues.
Madison is another Midwest city built around a large state university. However, Madison has nearly a third more residents in its metropolitan statistical area and the University of Wisconsin boasts 41,000 students, more than twice that of Missouri State University.
Quoted: Robert Streiffer, a professor of philosophy at the University of Wisconsin in Madison.
Quoted: University of Wisconsin professor David Noyce, a transportation safety expert
Men who have too much calcium in their bloodstreams could face an increased risk of dying of prostate cancer, according to an analysis from Wake Forest University School of Medicine and the University of Wisconsin that is being released today.
Quoted: James Stein at the University of Wisconsin, Madison
Hurricane Gustav has not been a significant challenge for New Orleans and its citizens, including Venkat-Ramani. A geophysicist involved in the search for oil and gas reservoirs beneath the seafloor in the Gulf, she is an alumnus of the University of Wisconsin- Madison, the president of the New Orleans chapter of the Wisconsin Alumni Association and member of the alumni board for the universityâ??s geology department. She is also an avid and well-read New Orleans blogger, having covered the impact and implications of Katrina and subsequent storms since first having to evacuate over 1100 days ago.
The financial woes facing a nonprofit dance theater in Forth-Worth, Tex., is a further sign that cultural groups need to do a better job examining their economic health, writes Andrew Taylor on his blog, The Artful Manager.
Mr. Taylor, director of the arts administration program at the University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Business, writes that arts groups must get used to the lean times.
The University of Wisconsin System is a vitally important component of state government. The mission of this higher education institution is documented in many places including the stateâ??s historical development, the statutes and its traditional role as positive irritant in the political and social debate of the people.
MADISON, Wis. — In a few days UW Hospital will open the doors to the area’s only interdisciplinary research complex.
Wisconsin Institutes for Medical Research, or WIMR as it is known to those in the local medical community, is unique in that surgeons, researchers and bio-engineers will all work side-by-side to tackle problems and bring innovative medicine from the lab to patients’ bedsides.
Doctors have long thought of such a complex as the holy grail of medicine.
New student enrollment is booming at UW-Rock County and administrators expect those numbers to climb even higher.
Right now the school has more than 730 full time students. The previous record was set in 2001 with about 670. In the past, most students chose to attend part-time, but that’s starting to change.
A beautiful evening wrapped up a bittersweet farewell on Cornellâ??s Bailey Plaza on Tuesday as Cornell students, faculty, and administration gathered under a stark white tent where ginger ale and dippinâ?? dots were served, to say goodbye one last time to their colleague Carolyn â??Biddyâ? Martin, former provost of the University. Martin has been affiliated with Cornell for 24 years and was University Provost from 2000-2008. Now she will fill the role of Chancellor at the University of Wisconsin.
In his address to the crowd, President David Skorton ran down an impressive list of Martinâ??s accomplishments, including her role in leading diversity efforts, revamping financial aid to increase socionomic diversity, and efforts to promote sustainability at Cornell.
As a gift to the outgoing provost, President David Skorton proclaimed that the dining room in the A.D. White House would now be called the â??Carolyn â??Biddyâ?? Martin Room.â?
The announcement was made yesterday at a special event, where about 150 staff, faculty, students and alumni gathered under a large, white tent on Bailey Hall plaza to bid farewell to Martin, now chancellor of University Wisconsin-Madison, her alma mater.
Daniel Gregg Myers, age 22, passed away Wednesday, Aug. 27, 2008, at University Hospital. Daniel was a 2004 graduate of Madison Memorial High School and a 2008 graduate, with distinction, from UW-Madison in piano performance.
Richard “Rick” Putze, age 22, passed away on Aug. 27, 2008. Rick was a 2004 Graduate of Milwaukee Tech and currently a student at UW-Madison where he was majoring in Chemistry.
This little quarter mile of the Pecatonica River is wild. It smells like forever, and scrub brush crowds to the edge of the water.
But it’s not wild enough.
The Nature Conservancy, the Wisconsin Waterfowl Association, the state Department of Natural Resources and UW-Madison are partners in a project started last week to restore this bit of river about 30 miles west of Madison within the 50,000 acre Military Ridge Prairie Heritage Area in Dane and Iowa counties to its most natural state.
If you want to be a Badger, it doesn’t get much better than today.
Wisconsin’s red and white are expected to clobber the blue and gold Akron Zips in the football season opener at Camp Randall.
The weatherman predicts an almost perfect day: mostly sunny with a light breeze and high temperature in the mid-80s.
UW-Madison Chancellor Biddy Martin told the crowd of several thousand freshman who gathered to hear her speak at the Kohl Center on Friday that they have something in common with her.
They’re all new to campus.
Martin, whose official first day is Monday, told the new students in a welcome address that they are “beginning a great adventure.”
For the better part of the 21st century, those in the UW Athletic Department have been trying to bring a sense of decorative order and honor to the university’s sports history.
That’s especially the case in football, where bronze statues have risen from concrete, uniform numbers have been retired and grainy images that date back to the 1880s have been enlarged and put under display lights inside refurbished Camp Randall Stadium.
After seven seasons as the outspoken and outrageous mom on the hit sitcom “Malcolm in the Middle,” UW-Madison graduate Jane Kaczmarek desperately needed a break from her TV family — and wanted time for her real one.
With a collective high step, the trumpet section kicks up a cloud of dust. Then the trombones and euphoniums. Then the drums.
Soon, the whole UW Marching Band tromps forward through a swirling dust storm of its own making.
A newly arrived UW researcher and colleagues at two other universities published stem-cell research results this week based on the successful growth of sound-signal-sending hair genes in the ears of lab mice, a process that could eventually be used to restore hearing to deaf people.
An international research team led by a UW-Madison assistant professor says the melting rate of Greenland’s ice sheet may cause sea levels to rise faster over the next century than the U.N.’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change currently predicts.
Liberal arts colleges make a passionate case that the skills they offer â?? analysis, writing, argument â?? are the best preparation for a career in the ever-changing business world.
But at a time of surging college costs and rising career anxieties, they’re feeling some heat from parents and students to do more to give students a well-rounded resume.
In 2004, UW-Madison senior Sol Grosskopf was a guest at the final night of the Republican National Convention in New York when President Bush gave his acceptance speech.
Quoted: John Lucas, a spokesman for the University of Wisconsin, which notifies the parents of students who are committed to a detox center.
Noted: University of Wisconsin in Madison purchased 10 $1,000 ID scanners and gave them to local liquor stores so they can identify underage students and prohibit sales to them.
PARIS (AFP) â?? Scientists Sunday said they could no longer rule out a fast-track melting of the Greenland icesheet — a prospect, once the preserve of doomsayers, that would see much of the world’s coastline drowned by rising seas.
Seeking help from the past, geologist Anders Carlson at the University of Wisconsin, led a team that delved into sediment left by the Laurentide Icesheet.
The University of Wisconsin weighed advice from a student focus group and an e-mail survey before replacing its first-come, first-served approach with a weighted lottery system. Class standing as of June 1 determined the number of chances each student carried into the July drawing, with graduate students and seniors receiving four chances to a freshman’s one. Each undergraduate class was guaranteed 2,000 lottery winners, with at least 500 tickets going to grad students.
Quoted: University of Wisconsin political scientist Byron Schafer, who is an authority on national party conventions and has attended every one since 1980.
Quoted: Jim Stein, director of preventive cardiology at the University of Wisconsin.
Quoted: University of Wisconsin Madison Law School professor Ben Kempinen, an attorney who has taught criminal justice and ethics for 30 years.
Quoted: Charles Franklin, professor of political science at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Brad Vogel departed his home in the Uptown neighborhood of New Orleans early Saturday morning, one among more than a million persons from the city and surrounding coastal regions of Louisiana that have evacuated their homes over the weekend in advance of Hurricane Gustav.
A native of Kiel, Wisconsin and 2006 graduate of the University of Wisconsin-Madison, Vogel is a co-founder of Letters in Bottles, a blog covering politics and pop culture both in Madison and around the world, and an alumnus of the Badger Herald editorial board. He had just started his second year at Tulane University Law School last week before classes were suspended in anticipation of the storm, which is currently projected to hit Louisiana with considerable strength.
Quoted: Climate scientists are uncertain how susceptible ice sheets are to global warming, largely because they have never witnessed one disappear, so researchers led by Anders Carlson at the University of Wisconsin-Madison decided to look back to the end of the last ice age for clues.
MADISON, Wis. — A new study from the University of Wisconsin think tank has bad news for Wisconsin families.
The study from UW Madison’s Center on Wisconsin Strategy said average Wisconsin families continue to get pummeled by national economic issues and local job losses.
MADISON, Wis. — The University of Wisconsin-Madison’s new chancellor hasn’t officially started yet but she has already begun to take the lead.
Dr. Carolyn “Biddy” Martin made her first address to the campus body Friday.
She spoke before nearly 4,500 incoming freshmen and welcomed them to campus.
MADISON, Wis. — Carolyn “Biddy” Martin officially takes on the title of chancellor of the University of Wisconsin-Madison on Sept. 1.
She’s taking over for John Wiley — who, just two weeks before his official retirement, unloaded on the state’s largest business lobby, Wisconsin Manufacturers and Commerce.
It’s all in a column Wiley wrote in this month’s issue of Madison Magazine.
MADISON, Wis. — A 19-year-old woman is recovering after being hit by a car on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus on Thursday night.
The UW student was crossing Lake Street when she was struck by a vehicle at about 11:15 p.m., authorities said.
MADISON, Wis. — A University of Wisconsin student group is hoping more people will pitch in and start thinking green.
Students from REthink Wisconsin – – a group dedicated to sustainability on campus – – are teaming up with UW athletics to start a recycling program called “W ear red, think green, Badgers recycle.”
“What were doing is we started a recycling program with the office of the Athletic Department and our student organization,” said Maria Davis with Rethink Wisconsin. “We want to be here in order to guide them and educate them primarily on our program and how were working with the Athletic Department.”
College presidents have long gotten flak for refusing to take controversial stands on national issues. Some say the bold presidents of the past, like the Rev. Theodore M. Hesburgh and William C. Friday, have been replaced by timid fund raisers.
But last month a large group of presidents opened an emotionally charged national debate on the drinking age. In doing so, they triggered an avalanche of news-media coverage and a fierce backlash.
John McCain’s running mate brings little experience, but solid conservative credentials, to the Republican ticket, UW Madison political scientist Charles Franklin says.
MADISON (WKOW) — A UW student was taken to the hospital after she was hit by a car Thursday night in downtown Madison.
Police say at around 11:30 p.m., the woman stepped into the intersection at the corner of lake Street and University Avenue.
A car, which approached a yellow light, then hit the woman in the crosswalk.
There is no way to accurately to measure the character and the potential impact of every student-athlete that comes through the University of Wisconsin, but there is one certainty.
The bar sits somewhere in the vicinity of Troy Vincent.
He was a cornerback and kick returner for the Badgers during one of their darkest football periods â?? just nine wins in four years from 1988 to ’91 â?? but he persevered to be an All-American.
He thought so highly of his experience in Madison that he endowed a football scholarship, valued at $250,000, at UW.
For the better part of the 21st century, those in the University of Wisconsin Athletic Department have been trying to bring a sense of decorative order and honor to UW’s sports history.
That’s especially the case in football, where bronze statues have risen from concrete, uniform numbers have been retired and grainy images that date back to the 1880s have been enlarged and put under display lights inside refurbished Camp Randall Stadium.
UW System’s ten-year plan to increase diversity on state campuses ends this year.
Some progress has been made after a lot of hard work on recruitment, retention and pre-college programs.
Yet it’s unclear if the System is getting much bang out of tens of millions of bucks it spends on the effort each year.
Lindsey Theresa Plank, age 23, died on Wednesday, Aug. 27, 2008, as a result of a car crash. She was finishing her chemistry degree at UW-Madison.
UW-Madison will be kicking off another school year next week, and for many returning faculty and staff- the murders of Joel Marino and student Brittany Zimmermann are still fresh memories.
So this year the UW is putting more emphasis on safety.
Both the Zimmermann and Marino murders happened in off campus neighborhoods highly populated by students, and because of those violent crimes the UW is emphasizing safety in those communities.
Not with extra officers or a change in patrol routes, but with information.
Quoted: Randy Clark, the manager of the exercise science laboratory at the University of Wisconsin Hospital Sports Medicine Center in Madison, Wis., said that while mountain climbers and distance swimmers tend to have different physiques, there is a similarity in their physiological and psychological makeup.
Quoted: University of Wisconsin Law School professor Michael Scott said police turn to humiliation as a low-cost strategy, but it doesn’t deter prostitutes. Scott said it’s more effective at scaring away customers, but then new clients replace them.
Quoted: Byron Shafer, an expert on party coalitions and the presidential nominating process.
Rookie guard Jolene Anderson, cut by the Sun on Wednesday to make room for the signing of Svetlana Abrosimova, told the Duluth, Minn., News Tribune that she’s excited to see what’s next for her career.
“The WNBA is a business, and it was a great three months with the Sun, but you just have to move on,” said Anderson, the University of Wisconsin’s all-time leading scorer. (2nd item.)
