Madison Police worked overtime this past Labor Day weekend to ensure the streets of downtown Madison were safe for everyone.
157 arrests were made total.
Madison Police enforced a plan called Downtown Safety Initiative Special Operations over four nights this past weekend, Thursday through Sunday.
UW Police gave out 14 tickets and ejected 26 people from Camp Randall during the Badgers first home football game Saturday, according to statistics released by the department.
At this time of year it’s customary for the media to reach out. We want to help. We understand you. We’re just like you, after all – except old. Terribly, terribly old . . . sometimes I get so lonely.
Name: Connie Nadler
Age: 44
Occupation: Director of LearningRx, 37 Kessel Court
Web site: www.learningrx.com
I am a personal brain trainer. As the director of LearningRx, a company that helps people of all ages learn better, I provide individualized one-on-one training to improve cognitive skills such as auditory and visual processing, memory, attention and reasoning.
I earned my degrees in audiology and speech language pathology from UW-Madison in 2003.
Wednesday’s article on increasing textbook costs did a good job of identifying possible solutions. As a recent graduate from the UW-Madison with a triple major in liberal arts, allow me to propose another: Advise faculty to reconsider their reading lists.
Madison police are trying hard to reduce crime Downtown, and surveillance cameras will help this important effort.
Police will install eight wireless video cameras by mid-September to monitor trouble spots in and around State Street and University Avenue near the UW-Madison campus. Video will be transmitted to a central server and streamed to squad cars in the street.
A shortage of Arabic-language teachers across the country is shedding light on a classic economics question: What happens when there is plenty of demand and not enough supply?
Since 9/11, the number of students interested in the Middle Eastern language has been skyrocketing. More than 20,000 people in the USA enrolled in an Arabic-language higher-education program in 2006, double the number who signed up from 1998 to 2002, according to projections from a study the Modern Language Association expects to release this fall.
Colleges around the country are closely watching for a key ruling in a bitter legal battle between Princeton University and a disgruntled alumnus who claims the school misspent the millions his family left the school in 1961.
Regardless of the outcome, the case has already cost Princeton $22 million in legal fees and left a mark across higher education. Many colleges are grateful they haven’t been targeted by such a suit â?? and newly determined to make sure they never are. It’s accelerated a trend among both schools and donors of negotiating upfront just how gift money is to be spent.
MADISON â?? Mario Selph said he probably has to drop out of school this semester.
Erin Campbell might not be able to buy her books for weeks, and Rose Reisinger may have to take out more loans.
The three are among 4,300 low-income college students on a waiting list for the stateâ??s premier financial aid program, which has run out of money because of a budget stalemate at the Capitol.
Madison – The Legislature’s special budget committee, if it were a game show, would be called “Let’s Not Make a Deal.”
Quoted: Charles Franklin, a University of Wisconsin-Madison political science professor.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison’s School of Business is unique, say its administrators, for its specialized courses in the second year. Students can focus on disciplines from brand management to entrepreneurship. Some students who responded to the 2007 BusinessWeek survey praised the school for its practical, applied lessons and personalized touches.
Quoted: Brian Gould, an agricultural economist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
MADISON, Wis. — Even while U.S. numbers lag, the number of vaccinations for meningitis is high in Wisconsin.
A government survey finds that about 12 percent of teens get the relatively new vaccine.
But Wisconsin has higher compliance, in part because of a state law passed after a student died of the infection.
Wisconsin college students aren’t required to get the shot, which usually costs around $90.
Craig Roberts, an epidemiologist with the University Health Services in Madison, said that three-fourths of incoming freshmen are vaccinated.
The stalled state budget is stalling financial aid for students starting class this week at UW-Madison. Legislators are more than two months late in passing a budget. Without one, the state’s financial aid program cannot cut checks to its neediest students.
Tanika Wilson-Kromah is returning to school after ten years. She is also a mom, so searching for financial aid is helping her hit the books again.
More than 130,000 Wisconsin residents are UW alumni. If you’re one of them, you may recieve a newsletter in the mail this week directing you to a website with information on how the state budget battle could affect UW.
SaveBucky.com was designed by the Wisconsin Alumni Association. Part of WAA’s mission is to advocate for higher education. WAA is asking state legislators to pass a budget that provides $70 million for core costs, including faculty salaries, advisors, custodians, supplies and campus police officers.
Quoted: Susan Fischer, director of Student Financial Services at UW-Madison, tells students to resist the pitch and the freebies. “Just go buy a T-shirt if you need a T-shirt.”
The future of higher education in Wisconsin is at stake as budget negotiations continue between the state Assembly and Senate.
One item of particular concern is a proposed cap to limit the growth in tuition paid by University of Wisconsin System students to 4% a year for four years.
If approved, the tuition cap might preclude needed differential tuitions for high-demand majors, proposals that have been endorsed by students and approved by the Board of Regents.
Quoted: Bruce P. Barrett, an associate professor of family medicine at the University of Wisconsin who was not involved with the review.
If you’ve tried loading up on fruits, vegetables and whole grains and still can’t get relief from constipation, maybe you need more than a boost of fiber.
“The idea that many patients have, and unfortunately their physicians, if we just keep pushing fiber until the grass grows out of their behind they’ll have been treated successfully, that’s not really true,” said Dr. Arnold Wald, a professor of medicine in the section on gastroenterology and hepatology at the University of Wisconsin.
The university that produces the most blue chip CEOs and university professors, the most Peace Corps volunteers, and the most productive and long-running patents isn’t Stanford or MIT — it’s the University of Wisconsin.
MADISON, Wis. — Given the University of Wisconsin football Badgers’ impressive home record, which only improved after Saturday’s victory over Washington State, fans of visiting teams who travel to Madison to see their team play Wisconsin are usually not happy with the outcome at Camp Randall.Even so, university officials are working to make Badger game day more enjoyable for all fans, regardless of their allegiances, WISC-TV reported.
LA CROSSE, Wis. – There is no serial killer, investigators insist, no boogeyman lurking in college-area bars, waiting to drown good-looking young men.
As the American Psychological Association debates whether its members should be involved in so-called coercive interrogation, Alfred W. McCoy is trying to get psychologists to own up to their past.
Mr. McCoy, a professor of history at the University of Wisconsin at Madison, is the author of A Question of Torture: CIA InterÂrogation From the Cold War to the War on Terror (Metropolitan Books, 2006). The book is a detailed indictment, brimming with outraged accusations â?? what one reviewer called “a flashlight beaming into the dark closets of government.”
Quoted: John Hawks, an assistant professor of anthropology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
There’s a real generational divide on the issue of video games.
For those older than 35 or so, games are mostly an unfortunate waste of time or, worse, a Trojan horse introducing our kids to violent, sexist themes. For those younger than 35, they are a leading form of entertainment, a resource for creativity and innovation, and — contrary to the common stereotype — a way to socialize.
Constance Steinkuehler is an assistant professor of educational communication and technology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Wisconsin workers filled more jobs in 2006 but earned less than in 2005 and, for the first time since 1983, experienced more unemployment than the nation as a whole, according to a Labor Day statistical update released today.
The Center on Wisconsin Strategy at the University of Wisconsin-Madison compiles data from various government agencies to offer “The State of Working Wisconsin” in even-numbered years and a less comprehensive update in odd-numbered years.
Once upon a time in America, when worker productivity rose, wages followed. Not any more, says Joel Rogers, who directs the Center on Wisconsin Strategy at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
The typical worker today is doing what almost two workers did three decades ago, but is getting just a teeny bit more pay than what one worker got back then. Rogers is explaining why a good many people who toil for pay are singing the Labor Day blues.
Quoted: Jeffrey P. Smith, a professor of film studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Quoted: Joanne Cantor, who taught communications at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
CONOVER, Wis. — Four years after they invaded the Gile Flowage, spiny water fleas have shown up in Vilas County’s Stormy Lake.
The exotic invaders hadn’t been found in any other Wisconsin inland lake until their discovery last week.
Researchers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Trout Lake station found the water fleas while monitoring the Vilas County lake for other types of zooplankton. The tiny animals are important because they form the basis of food chains in lakes.
Madison- 40,000 students are returning to UW-Madison this week, just 2 months after the disappearance and murder of UW-Whitewater student Kelly Nolan in the downtown Madison area.
Her killer was never caught. The crime is fresh in the minds of students. Some say they will be more cautious while out partying, knowing that Nolan’s killer is still on the loose.
MADISON, Wis. — The University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Marching Band has been staying in line — both literally and figuratively — since it was threatened by officials for rowdy behavior and hazing last year.
News about the band has been positive since a series of embarrassing incidents came out about lewd behavior by the group led to Chancellor John Wiley’s decree to shape up.
Casey Nagy, an assistant to Wiley, said administrators have been “very pleased with their response” after band members were strongly warned about losing performance and travel privileges.
Madison – When University of Wisconsin-Madison scientist James Thomson staked his claim in 1998 as the first researcher to isolate and grow human embryonic stem cells, he set on fire an emerging area of science that many believe has potential to cure some of the world’s most difficult diseases.
Backed by the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation, Thompson also set in motion a patent skirmish that heated up last year when two groups asked the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office to examine the validity of WARF’s three key embryonic stem cell patents.
After years of concern about Wisconsin’s brain drain, now there’s evidence of a “boomerang” effect.
Researchers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison have found that although Wisconsin suffers a slight loss overall of college-educated residents, the drain is mostly among graduates in their 20s. In fact, the state has net gains among college grads in their 30s and 40s.
“That’s a heartening development,” said John Karl Scholz, an economist and co-author of a working paper on the research. “If it continues, that’s clearly a source of strength for the state, because clearly college-educated people in their thirties and forties are likely to be putting deeper roots in the community, and that’s a good thing. The trend is good.”
Quoted: Jake Vander Zanden, an aquatic ecologist with the UW-Madison Center for Limnology.
Madison police bust underage and over-served students on one of the busiest party weekends.
27 News rode along with Madison Police Department’s Party Patrol Friday night.
Six officers went from house to house and bar to bar busting underage drinkers.
MADISON, Wis. — There are many fun-loving terms for Wisconsin residents â?? Wisconsinites, Cheeseheads, Packer-Backers.
But one term is turning into big business for some recent UW grads.
The term is â??Sconnie.â?
Colin Scanes, the new vice chancellor for research and economic development and dean of the graduate school at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, was recruited from a similar post at Mississippi State University to reinforce UWM’s commitment to research and high-tech job creation.
When Emily McLain decided to enroll at the University of Oregon, a significant part of the appeal was low tuition. She had not counted on all the fees that unexpectedly appeared on her bill.
â??I had my dad calling me asking, â??Whatâ??s this for?â?? â? said Ms. McLain, 22, a political science and international studies major now entering her last year at the university.
MADISON, Wis. — Heather Zucker ate mostly salad and spaghetti during the years she lived in the University of Wisconsin dorms. Sometimes, her dinner was just a bowl of ice cream.
Zucker wasn’t being picky. She keeps kosher, and she said there were ”slim pickin’s” for Jewish students in the dining halls.
Quoted: Tom Oâ??Guinn, a marketing professor at the University of Wisconsin and executive director of the Center for Brand and Product Management.
Quoted: University of Wisconsin Hospital emergency medicine physician Darren Bean said blowing air into someone having a heart attack induces pressure in the lungs that slows blood flow.
MADISON – As students returned to the University of Wisconsin-Madison for the fall semester, detectives continued their search for the killer of a woman who vanished after a night of bar-hopping, common among the school’s 41,000 students.
Police and university officials are cautioning students to drink in moderation, stay with their friends and have a plan for getting home — things that 22-year-old Kelly Nolan apparently didn’t do before she disappeared early June 23.
The University of Wisconsin hasn’t had a live badger since 1947 â?? about the time Bucky got loose and ran onto the football field during a game, says David Null, director of the school’s archives.
“The team got a delay-of-game call while they tried to round it up and take care of it,” Null says. “They’re feisty little animals. I doubt they’ll ever bring it back.”
The lawmakers increasingly coming under attack for not having reached a compromise on the state budget spent most of their time Thursday arguing about why they can’t agree.
Madison: Many of the midwest’s largest cable companies are still fighting the Big 10 Network over how much they should pay to carry the channel and whether it belongs in the basic cable package or in a more expensive sports package.
Currently the only way to watch the Big 10 Network is with the satellite provider Direct TV.
As UW freshmen move in, they don’t realize the key to their popularity may be their TV. For the first time in the history of college upperclassmen may be asking freshmen if they can come over to the dorms and hang out.
Think back to your freshman year of college: what comes to mind?
Maybe meeting new people, taking tough classes or ordering pizza every night?That first year of freedom brings big changes for many new students. The most daunting may be managing their money for the first time.UW-Eau Claire allows credit card companies to market to students but only if a student organization or academic department sponsors the company’s visit to campus.
Policies vary by school in the UW-System, but at UW-Stout and UW-Madison, school leaders restrict where credit card companies or other marketing organizations can try to sell to students
The recent State Journal story on ethanol should have read, “Are we too energy dependent?” The answer is yes. Wisconsin consumers paid $19 billion for energy in 2005 with at least $12 billion leaving the state, costing us 300,000 jobs.
Quoted: Don Waller, a professor of botany and environmental studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
MADISON, Wis. â?? As students returned to the University of Wisconsin-Madison this week for the fall semester, detectives continued their search for the killer of a woman who vanished after a night of bar-hopping common among the school’s 41,000 students.
As students returned to UW-Madison this week for the fall semester, detectives continued their search for the killer of a woman who vanished after a night of bar-hopping common among the school ‘s 41,000 students.
As students returned to UW-Madison for the fall semester, police and university officials have words of caution.
With Kelly Nolan’s killer still at large, they are warning students not to drink in excess, to stay with their friends and have a plan for getting home.
MADISON, Wis. — The new Big Ten Network launched Friday night, but many Badgers fans in the area won’t be able to view it because a deal didn’t come together with cable companies.There is no deal in place for the network to have a home on Charter Cable. The Big Ten Network wants to be part of the extended cable lineup, but Charter wants to put the network in the sports tier option, meaning that only those who want it will get it.
A member of the legislature’s budget committee suggests Governor Doyle change travel plans, in order to concentrate on the state budget. At the Capitol, the conference committee is still mired in trying to reconcile the vastly different budgets passed by the Assembly and Senate. Senate Minority Leader, Juneau Republican Scott Fitzgerald, said Governor Jim Doyle needs to be more involved.
When the bands, cheerleaders and mascots drum up excitement for their schools’ sports teams this fall, their wide smiles and precision stunts may be masking something: Fanfare doesn’t come cheap.
While sports teams may travel in style, Division I-A athletic departments at public schools spent anywhere from zero â?? at schools such as UCLA and Idaho â?? to $1.2 million at Tennessee and Texas on “spirit,” according to their 2005 and 2006 NCAA financial reports.
In some cases, universities have redirected spirit costs, especially when it’s an integral part of the school’s image. Wisconsin, for example, moved funding for the marching band to an endowment â?? now worth $4 million â?? when the athletic department was having financial difficulties in the 1990s, according to director of bands Mike Leckrone.
A hard-hitting report by a state panel on last spring’s massacre at Virginia Tech could have an effect beyond the Blacksburg, Va., campus and the state border as colleges nationwide consider whether to adopt new policies dealing with security, emergency preparedness, and mental-health issues prompted by the country’s worst campus shooting, higher-education experts say.
A report reviewing the Virginia Tech massacre found that university officials missed dozens of opportunities to intervene as Seung Hui Cho’s mental health deteriorated in the year before the rampage.
Q. Is it true that cell phone chargers continue to draw power when they ‘re not charging a battery, simply because they ‘re plugged into an outlet? And if this is true, how can it be?
A. Although he hasn ‘t measured it, UW-Madison emeritus electrical engineering professor Don Novotny guesses that a plugged-in charger still draws about one-third of the power it does while operating.
Wisconsinites can take pride in so many of our state ‘s achievements, but our drinking status is not among them. The Badger state regularly lands at or near the top of national rankings on high-risk or heavy drinking, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
And it ‘s not just college students
Bret Bielema remembers what he was thinking on the plane trip back to school after the football game during his junior year in college when his Iowa team beat Michigan, solidifying the Hawkeyes ‘ trip to the Rose Bowl.
“My sister hadn ‘t seen me play, so on the plane on the way home I was thinking that the Rose Bowl will be her chance to see me play, ” he says.
