On Wednesday, the non-profit National Association of Independent Colleges and Universities is to launch a website on which students can compare 600 of its 1,000 member schools using a standard format. Other groups plan to roll out similar efforts this fall.
Wisconsin coach Bret Bielema met last week with the dean of students to discuss the status of suspended running back Lance Smith.
Smith is barred from playing in the Badgers’ five road games this season as punishment for an incident in which he allegedly pushed his girlfriend in July. Bielema said Monday he met with dean of students Lori Berquam last week to discuss the case.
University of Wisconsin football coach Bret Bielema continues to fight to reduce the five-game road suspension for sophomore running back Lance Smith.
But as of now, there is no indication Smith’s penalty will be reduced.
Bielema brought up the issue on his television show Sunday, saying he had hope Smith’s suspension could be reduced.
MADISON â?? University of Wisconsin football coach Bret Bielema met last week with the school’s dean of students to discuss suspended running back Lance Smith.
Smith, the Badgersâ?? No. 2 running back, is barred from playing in the teamâ??s five road games this season as punishment for a July incident in which he allegedly pushed his girlfriend.
The Recording Industry Association of America last week targeted students at 22 American universities, sending out 403 of its “pre-litigation settlement letters,” according to the group, which represents major record labels. As in the past, the letters were not sent directly to those accused of copyright infringement, but to administrators, who were then expected to “forward the letter to the appropriate network user.”
MADISON â?? Legislative leaders called to Gov. Jim Doyleâ??s residence to reach a deal on the 12-week late state budget worked in private all day Monday and were expected to resume on Tuesday.
Both education and income can determine whether a person will remain healthy, but those who stay in school longer have the best odds, largely because education so strongly influences income, say the authors of a new study.
“Those with less education are more likely to develop health problems and those with low incomes who already have health problems are more likely to see their health worsen,” said lead author Pamela Herd, a University of Wisconsin-Madison sociologist.
Gay and lesbian faculty members may no longer be desperate to hide their true identities in academe, but many are desperately seeking health insurance for their partners.
That point was driven home at the University of Wisconsin last December, when Robert W. Carpick, a leading researcher in nanotechnology (the building of extremely small, atom-scale structures), left for the University of Pennsylvania. The lack of domestic-partner benefits at Wisconsin was “a driving reason to look elsewhere,” he says. Penn offered him a job; the fact that it offered such benefits clinched the deal, says Mr. Carpick, who married his partner of 10 years in Canada in 2003.
Quoted: Stephen Carpenter of the University of Wisconsin.
Those of us who went to college with David Obey no doubt find it hard to believe that the Wausau Democrat is now the longest-serving member of the U.S. Congress in Wisconsin’s history.
He was so young in the 1960s and he is so powerful today. What happened?
When an ambitious master plan to upgrade UW Athletic Department facilities was outlined Friday, it triggered a series of questions for which there were few answers.
To misquote Shakespeare: The fault, dear Bucky, is not in our stars but in ourselves.
That is the answer to the question: Why is Madison NOT the home of the classiest college football fans in America?
To catch a glimpse of Wisconsin ‘s binge drinking problem, walk around the neighborhoods surrounding Camp Randall in Madison on a football Saturday.
Mixed with the tens of thousands of fans enjoying the tradition and excitement of Badger football, you ‘ll see hundreds for whom Saturday is an opportunity to drink — and keep drinking.
Quoted: Narciso Menocal, a professor of art history at the UW-Madison who specializes in architecture.
A small Madison biotechnology company called Ratio is working to commercialize a painless way to administer drugs. The system, which is touted as being simpler and less expensive than others on the market, was invented by David Beebe, a UW-Madison professor of biomedical engineering, and his colleagues at UW-Madison and the University of Illinois.
Badger football fans couldn’t have ordered a better day.
Smiles, beers and brats were served up generously under a cloudless sky as fans soaked up fine autumn weather before today’s game again Iowa.
But this afternoon, many of those tailgating around Camp Randall were thinking ahead to the night, and how they would extricate themselves from the post-game gridlock.
Note: This is a new weekly profile series that will focus on UW-Madison’s groundbreaking researchers.
The early language transformation has intrigued UW-Madison psychologist Jenny Saffran for more than a decade.
When an ambitious master plan to upgrade UW Athletic Department facilities was outlined Friday, it triggered a series of questions for which there were few answers. Q: How long will it take for the projects â?? which include four sites and directly affect all 23 sports and 800 student-athletes â?? to become a reality?
When it comes to natural disasters, the Japanese government is good with numbers. It expects, for instance, a magnitude-8.1 quake to strike in the next 30 years with an epicentre in the Nankai trough â?? a depression in the sea-floor 100 kilometres off the country’s east coast. And when it hits, it is likely to kill between 12,000 and 18,000 people.
The Nankai trough lies in a subduction zone, a perilous region in which one tectonic plate dives under another, building up the sort of rock strain that can unleash the world’s most powerful earthquakes. All earthquakes with a magnitude of greater than 9 have occurred in these zones. And although the next earthquake at Nankai is not expected to be quite this big, the region could prove key in understanding why earthquakes in subduction zones release such vast amounts of energy.
Quoted: Harold Tobin of the University of Wisconsin in Madison, the project’s other chief scientist.
Quoted: Joel Rivlin, deputy director of the Wisconsin Advertising Project at the University of Wisconsin.
Quoted: Nan Enstad, a cultural historian at the University of Wisconsin.
It’s an open secret of the Ivory Tower. Even when they’re locked, the front doors of college dorms are almost always open. And once a stranger’s inside everyone’s vulnerable to theft, assault and to rape.It’s a fact. Students let strangers tailgate into the dorms all the time. The strangers then have access to all the floors and all the rooms.
Is a college campus a place for all views to be aired, or are some public figures too extreme to deserve the platform?
Itâ??s a question numerous colleges have wrestled with, but perhaps none more frequently of late than Columbia University in New York. The topic is front-and-center again over the invitation to Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to speak there Monday.
Finally facing a team that doesn’t run one of those pesky spread offenses, Wisconsin’s defense played as advertised for the first time this season. Wisconsin (4-0, 1-0 Big Ten) held Iowa to 228 yards and 13 first downs in a 17-13 victory on Saturday night. An equally stubborn Iowa defense kept the game close, but the Badgers’ defense kept the Hawkeyes from cashing in on turnovers.
MADISON, Wis. â?? Gov. Jim Doyle and legislative leaders plan to meet privately starting Monday to work out a budget deal that all involved said could be done by the end of the week.Announcement of the meeting to be held at the governorâ??s residence came Friday after Democrats made a major concession designed to kick-start negotiations over the budget that is three months late.
William Rehnquist “was a brutal editor, stripping his clerks’ words down to the essentials, taking out what he called, with some contempt, â??the reasoning,'” Jeffrey Toobin writes in “The Nine: Inside the Secret World of the Supreme Court” (Doubleday, 384 pages, $27.95).
To misquote Shakespeare: The fault, dear Bucky, is not in our stars but in ourselves.
That is the answer to the question: Why is Madison NOT the home of the classiest college football fans in America?
MADISON, Wis. — A University of Wisconsin-Madison alumnus is facing a charge of violating a restraining order.
Police said Albert Wellstein was arrested Wednesday when he showed up at the Red Gym on the UW-Madison campus.
He was banned from campus this spring. Authorities accused him of sending a threatening poem to a female acquaintance and making a death threat to a campus police detective.
The most zealous and thirsty partiers at University of Wisconsin football games are about to find themselves with a pregame appointment they’d presumably rather not attend.
Under a new policy going into effect for the Badgers’ Big Ten opener against Iowa tonight at Camp Randall Stadium in Madison, students who have either received alcohol citations or been ejected from games for alcohol-related offenses will have to take a Breathalyzer test before getting into Wisconsin football games.
MADISON, Wis. â?? Badgersâ?? fans better listen up, and not drink up.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison is now using a Breathalyzer to test students who have been kicked out of games for disorderly conduct before admitting them to Camp Randall Stadium.
MADISON, Wis. — University of Wisconsin-Madison students who choose to drink before Saturday night’s Badgers football game might risk their chance to enjoy the rest of the season.
The Dean of Students Office is trying to crack down on underage and excessive drinking on game day with a program dubbed “Show and Blow.”
It’s an unfortunate side effect of game day–detox sees more drunk people pass through its doors. All the partying before, during, and after the game can cause some headaches for police and doctors.
This weekend detox is ready for an influx of people. Since the Badgers take on the Iowa Hawkeyes, in a night game, tailgaters will have all day to have fun and possibly drink too much. Lt. Bill Larson is in charge of security at Camp Randall on game days and it’s busy. “It’s 83,000 people coming together to cheer on the Badgers,” said Lt. Larson.
From Raymond Road to West Badger Road to West Mifflin Street, Madison Police are investigating six separate cases where people say they’ve been attacked and mugged across the city.
The Campus Antiwar Network on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus is protesting Halliburton’s decision to recruit the university’s engineering students.
Campus activism has a long tradition at University of Wisconsin. In the 1960s, students protested Dow Chemical’s involvement in Vietnam. Chris Dols, a leader of the Campus Antiwar Network speaks to Noah Adams. (Audio.)
For parents hoping to keep tabs on their college-bound kids this fall, schools have this advice: Get it in writing — if you can.
Under federal law, colleges are barred from releasing information in a student’s record, including grades or disciplinary actions, without the student’s permission. There are certain exceptions to these rules, including when the school deems there is a health emergency. But parents are often dismayed to find that schools tend to err on the side of preserving a student’s privac
Quoted: Joanne Berg, registrar and vice provost for enrollment management of the University of Wisconsin.
Wisconsin center Marcus Coleman was flattered to be compared to heavy machinery.
Washington State coach Bill Doba called Wisconsin’s offensive linemen road graders after they flattened his defense earlier in the season. Even with the loss of All-American tackle Joe Thomas to the NFL, the Badgers’ offensive line is still paving the way to success.
A top London hospital flew in an expert from America to explain to doctors the importance of washing their hands.
It came after fears that senior medics at University College Hospital were not taking hygiene seriously.
Specialist infection nurses invited Dennis Maki, from the University of Wisconsin, to try to force senior staff to pay more attention to superbugs.
Quoted: Edward Jesse, UW-Madison professor of agriculture and applied economics.
Trying to evoke the ghosts of campus protests past, an estimated 200 UW-Madison students converged Thursday on the UW-Madison Engineering Centers Building to serenade Halliburton Co. recruiters at the annual engineering career fair.
Madison’s thug factor seems to be rising as fall approaches, with a slew of purse and bag snatchings this week â?? typically by pairs of young men targeting women walking alone in the city’s Downtown and South Side, police said.
UW-Madison stem-cell scientists have received a $7.2 million grant from the National Institutes of Health to study rats with Lou Gehrig’s disease.
About 30,000 Americans have the disease, also known as amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, or ALS. The progressive condition, usually fatal within a few years after diagnosis, weakens muscles and eventually makes people unable to breathe.
MADISON, Wis. (AP) – A Wisconsin scientist will set sail Friday to study earthquakes off Japan.
University of Wisconsin-Madison geologist Harold Tobin is part of a team that will investigate deep oceanic faults in the Nankai Trough. Such faults are responsible for creating tsunamis.
Tobin and the team will launch their research vessel from Shingu Port in Japan.
The expedition calls for deep-sea drilling.
It’s expected to last eight weeks.
MADISON, Wis. â?? A couple hundred students jammed into a University of Wisconsin-Madison building Thursday to protest Halliburton Co.â??s recruiting at a campus job fair.
The protesters sat in front of the companyâ??s booth, virtually blocking access to the its four recruiters. Engineering student and protest organizer Chris Dols led the group in song.
About a hundred students marched and protested Thursday to try and stop some recruiters at the U-W. The group was protesting Halliburton’s participation in a campus job fair.
They claim the company profits from a war they feel is unjust. But, this is not the first time the university has seen students use their first amendment to try to get a company kicked off campus.
“We are going to march from the top of the hill here,” said organizer Zach Heise. “We are going to march to ECB. We are going enter the building and sit down peacefully.”
For the first time, some students going to Saturday’s Iowa-Wisconsin game at Camp Randall will have a curious check-in.
They will have to take a breathalyzer in order to take a seat.
The target of 125 protesters at UW-Madison’s Engineering Hall Thursday was Halliburton: Vice president Dick Cheney’s former company, with past ties to the war effort in Iraq.
It was crowded with protesters and engineering students by Halliburton’s recruiting table, but there were no arrests, and the disruption was managed.
The students sat in front of the company’s booth, singing anti-war songs and virtually blocking access to the company’s four recruiters. The Campus Antiwar Network accused Halliburton of profiting from war. Its former subsidiary had large contracts to aid the U.S. military in Iraq.
The event ended peacefully after about 90 minutes. But some of the students attending the career fair were clearly annoyed by the disruption.
UW Madison students rallied Wednesday, against on campus recruiting by Haliburton. Protest organizer Chris Dols, with Campus Antiwar Network, got the rally started outside Bascom Hall on the Madison campus.
I want to thank the Badger Herald for taking a keen interest in the Offices of the Dean of Students (ODOS) and student life in general and take this opportunity to clarify some of the statements in Mondayâ??s article â??Get up, stand upâ? by Nick Penzenstadler. It seems as though some people may have misinterpreted my comments about student protests and the war in Iraq, so Iâ??d like to expand upon the message I intended to convey in that article.
Thinly stretched campus counseling centers routinely depend on overworked psychologists, off-campus therapists and waiting lists as long as three weeks to handle the crunch, says Rick Hanson, president of the Association for University and College Counseling Center Directors.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison allowed a star researcher to study genetic material that could produce the Ebola virus in a lab less secure than required under federal guidelines, officials said Wednesday. The study stopped last fall after a federal health official told the university the material must be contained in the most secure type of lab, a Biosafety Level 4.
Carnegie Mellon University has more than 7,000 students, but the downtown Pittsburgh campus offers only 2,700 parking spaces for students, faculty and staff.
This fall, the school is among more than 70 colleges and universities nationwide partnering with car-sharing services, which provide hourly rentals to members of the campus community.
Five months after the Virginia Tech massacre, some of the few remaining universities that do not permit campus police to carry guns are rethinking the firearms bans.
MADISON, Wis. â?? The memory of William â??Curlyâ? Hendershot is alive and well on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus.
Hendershot was the Dow Chemical Co. recruiter whose 1967 visit here sparked one of the most important protests of the Vietnam War era. A sit-in against the company that made napalm used in Vietnam ended in a bloody clash with police that turned many students into radicals.
Wisconsin continues to lead the nation in binge drinking and the percentage of adult drinkers.
Raising a glass to toast those rankings is an inappropriate response.
A new bar is slated to open in downtown Madison, but its approval didn’t go without much debate. This less than 24 hours after the Common Council approved an alcohol density plan preventing the approval of new liquor licenses in the downtown area. The proposal passed 4-1.
A researcher at the University of Wisconsin at Madison performed work on the Ebola virus genome from late 2005 to 2006 in a less-secure environment than is required by federal regulations, according to documents released on Wednesday by an advocacy group, but Wisconsin officials said the research did not put public safety at risk.
Student protesters in Madison say a planned demonstration on Thursday is inspired by the famous Dow Chemical riots of 1967 that led to pitched battles between police and students. But a rally organizer says this week’s protest against the Halliburton Corporation will be a peaceful one. (Audio.)
UW-Madison allowed a star researcher to study material that could be used to produce the Ebola virus in a lab less secure than what’s required under federal guidelines.
The study was stopped last fall after a National Institutes of Health official told the university the material must be contained at labs with the highest level of security, or Biosafety Level 4.
Re â??Calling the Folks About Campus Drinkingâ? (On Education column, Sept. 12):
Samuel G. Freedman notes that since the start of the University of Wisconsinâ??s parent notification program, student detox admissions have increased by 65 percent. Why? Because more than half of our 28,000 undergraduates engage in dangerous drinking at least once every two weeks, and they constitute a reservoir that continues to feed the pipeline to detox.
