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MADISON â?? University of Wisconsin System leaders today approved a controversial new policy that will make it harder for some nonprofit groups to receive student fees.

UW System vice president Don Mash said the policy protects universities from increasing pressure by groups seeking money for services that donâ??t benefit students.

Only about six out of 700 student groups on the UW campus in Madison will be affected by the policy change, which will allow fewer groups to use the money for salaries and off-campus rent.

University of Wisconsin system leaders approved a controversial policy Thursday that will make it more difficult for some groups to get money from student fees. It’s a change the University says will ensure the fees are spent how they were intended to be. Money generated from student segregated fees will now be better protected they say – and used directly for students.

The system for dispersing these fees has been questioned for years. The university admits there are plenty of non-profit groups that benefit students in Madison. Some of those groups, like the Wisconsin Public Interest Research Group argued they do use the money for the good of students.

LAS CRUCES – The partially burned body of a man found in south Las Cruces last month was that of a University of Wisconsin-Madison student, police said Thursday.

The body of Michael J. Mowers, 22, was discovered Nov. 21 in a culvert leading to a canal near Calle de Alegra, off South Main Street.

It was not known what Mowers was doing in Las Cruces.

As a high school senior, Aleks Olszewski was too lazy to visit many colleges, so she thumbed through books – such as â??351 Best Colleges,â? an 800-page compilation by the Princeton Review weighing more than two pounds – to learn the positive and negative aspects of the schools and read what their students had to say.

But, now a freshman at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, she cautions that may not be the best approach for all.

â??I’m happy with my decision,â? Olszewski said. â??But I know a lot of people who are transferring at semester or at the end of the year.â?

Poetry slams are intense. Filled with politics, hurt, laughter and always music, they have an energy and emotional involvement that can be compared to an amazing concert you just danced for hours at. And the finals for the inaugural UW Collegiate Slam on Tuesday night at the Wisconsin Union Theater were an impressive display of the young creative talent the state has to offer in a genre that is becoming more and more popular.

Obstacles left by Saturday’s storm has made getting around extra hard for Ben Schifsky whose wheelchair gets stuck in the thick slush and ice.

So this morning he gave himself a little more time to get to class.
But when he took his normal route to the bus stop he was blocked by a barrier of ice.
“So i tried to go to my bus stop and there was a giant chunk of ice jetting out of the sidewalk,” Schifsky says.

MADISON, Wis. — Disabled students on the UW campus are having a hard time making it to class this week.

While most sidewalks have been cleared, even small patches of snow and ice can create barriers for some students.

“That’s what we’ll see, stretches of a path that will be clear and then there will be three or four feet of rutted ice,” said Cathy Trueba, Director of the UW’s McBurney Disability Resource Center. “For somebody walking, they can navigate that small stretch, but if you’re using a chair or a person with difficulty in balance, gait, or vision that stretch basically creates a barrier that student may not be able to get past.”