When Alando Tucker heard the name of the University of Wisconsin’s first-round NCAA tournament opponent Sunday evening, the Badgers senior star was, well, a bit surprised.
Texas A&M? Tucker thought. Didn’t they finish, like, second in the Big 12? Aren’t they ranked, like, seventh in the country?
The University of Wisconsin men’s basketball team’s road to the NCAA Final Four will be a lot like the streets of Madison are this time of year – treacherous, and full of potential potholes.
CHICAGO – Maybe, just maybe, Ohio State is that good.
Maybe the Buckeyes, with their fabulous freshmen now fully acclimated to the rigors of college basketball, are an NCAA championship waiting to happen.
That would be one plausible explanation for the 66-49 hurt the Buckeyes put on the University of Wisconsin in the Big Ten Conference tournament final Sunday at the United Center.
Three computer whizzes from UW-Madison are headed to Tokyo this weekend to pit their brains – and endurance – against competitors from around the world.
They represent not only their own talent, but also what many hope is a resurgence of U.S. strength in the global computer science race.
UW-Madison’s popular SWAP Shop, where bargain hunters can find everything from Badgers sportswear to test tubes, is moving to the burbs.
The UW Materials Distribution Services Center, which includes the Surplus With A Purpose (SWAP) Shop, will move into a new 102,780- square-foot building in Verona this fall.
Six years ago, Lodi native Erik Crary graduated from UW-Madison, moved to Los Angeles and ended up landing what’s got to be one of the more unusual jobs in Hollywood: assistant to David Lynch.
Conservative commentator Ann Althouse told a statewide radio audience Friday that Ziegler’s approach to conflicts of interest makes her question the conservative jurist’s fitness for the high court.
Althouse, a political blogger and UW-Madison law professor, said on Wisconsin Public Radio’s “Week in Review” that “the more (conflict cases) there are, the worse it gets.” She criticized Ziegler’s public statements to an audience in Spring Green that she uses a “gut check” to decide when she’s got a conflict of interest.
Quoted: Charles Franklin, political science professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Student demand for more entrepreneurial education and opportunity at UW-Madison are finally being heard as initiatives take form. Many on campus are familiar with the student-run businesses at UW-Madison such as netNerds, Sconnie Nation, ExchangeHut, and U-DUB, but until recently, there have been few resources for students such as these companiesâ?? founders who are interested in experimenting with entrepreneurship.
Quoted: Allan Odden, co-director of University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Consortium for Policy Research in Education, who was a consultant during development of the pilot program.
In a lab on the University of Wisconsin campus people are busy working on experiments. Looking around you would think it is a normal science lab for chemistry or physics class. But these people arenâ??t there because a grade depends on it. They are there because lives depend on the outcome of their research.
Quoted: Dr. Jonathan Patz, director of Global Environmental Health at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
In recent years, the recording industry has brought lawsuits against college song-swapping suspects by filing batches of “John Doe” subpoenas, which identify students by their computers’ Internet-protocol numbers and ask college technology officials to provide names matching the numbers.
Now, though, the recording industry is asking colleges to get involved before it files any legal papers. Under the lawsuit process described in this letter from the Recording Industry Association of America, the group’s lawyers will send colleges batches of e-mail form letters, each identifying a particular Internet-protocol number, and will ask that the messages be forwarded to students whose machines correspond to those numbers. The messages explain that unless the students agree to an out-of-court settlement, the association will sue them.
APPLETON â?? Michelyn Cynthia Butler, 24, a student at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, was chosen Saturday as Miss Fox River Valley 2007 at the Thompson Community Center, 820 W. College Ave.
MADISON, Wis. — March Madness has begun, but the American Medical Association and others are urging the NCAA and universities like the University of Wisconsin-Madison to “Stop the Madness” and curb alcohol advertising.
The AMA said that the alcohol industry spends more than $52 million on college sports advertising.
On the UW-Madison campus, contracts with Anheuser-Bush and Miller are worth $425,000, WISC-TV reported.
Both sides say they got a favorable ruling from a federal judge on dispensing UW student fees to a religious organization.
The judge said, in order to receive $250,000 in student fees, the UW-Madison Roman Catholic Foundation must be run by students. “He said you need to have at least six students on your board and so we’re completely willing to do that.” … Pending expected approval of the executive board according to the Foundation’s Tim Kruse.
MADISON, Wis. — A UW student is in critical condition after a hit-and-run crash early Saturday morning.
The incident happened around 2:30 a.m. Saturday at the intersection of Park and Regent Streets.
The student is being treated at UW Hospital for life-threatening injuries.
Police have not yet tracked down the driver of the vehicle.
ST. PAUL, Minnesota (AP) — Winona State University senior Rick Howden, a business administration major, figures he knows a bad deal when he sees it. A $4,500 tab for his college textbooks by the time he graduates? Bad deal.
That includes a $142 business text he had to buy that he has barely opened.
“It ends up sitting on the floor next to my desk,” Howden said. “It’s hard for me to justify.”
In a recent column for the Wisconsin Technology Network, Gov. Jim Doyle wrote about the role of the University of Wisconsin System fueling our state’s economy. The governor missed the mark.
There is no doubt that the UW System is one of the best in the country. In order to remain on top, however, the system must be willing to innovate and evolve, something it has done little of since it was created in 1971. The UW System and the Board of Regents have shown they are not open to new ideas and should not be rewarded by the governor for their staunch resistance to change. What the System
(MADISON) A provision tucked into Governor Jim Doyleâ??s budget would give faculty at the University of Wisconsin the right to unionize and collectively bargain their contracts.
The idea would give faculty and academic staff the same kind of collective bargaining rights held by other state employees. They would not be able to strike, but they would be able to bargain over wages and hours.
UW-Platteville Professor Raymond Spoto is a long-time advocate of the idea and is a past president of the Association of University of Wisconsin Professionals. He says the rights would not be granted automatically. It would be up to faculty at each individual UW campus to vote on whether they want to bargain their contracts. Spoto says without that right, UW administration will never take the existing faculty governance system seriously.
As lawmakers prepare to debate Wisconsin’s next biennial budget plan, six communities around the state will host public hearings. State Representative Kitty Rhoades (R-Hudson), a co-chair of Joint Finance Committee, says it’s a great opportunity for citizens to take part in the budget process.
CHICAGO – Bo Ryan is nothing if not consistent.
Ask the University of Wisconsin men’s basketball coach which is more significant, a regular-season or a conference-tournament title, and his answer never changes: Winning a two-month marathon is more important than winning a weekend sprint.
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Alarmed by recent reports of student depression and fearing malpractice lawsuits, colleges are struggling with ways to treat suicidal students. Overwhelmed by a rise of troubled students in the past several years, colleges are dealing with mental health issues with renewed intensity. A 2006 survey found that more than 9 percent of college students seriously contemplated suicide in the previous year. Further, college researchers estimate that more than 1,000 kill themselves each year, making it the second leading cause of death among college-age men and women (after auto accidents).
For most, Sunday nights have a kind of sanctity. For some, Sunday is the last chance to guiltlessly veg out for another five days. For others, Sunday is a night to relax with loved ones before the week begins. For procrastinators, Sunday is a last chance to finish projects before Monday’s deadlines.
For Jonathan Peterson, Sunday is the night he drives four hours to play trumpet in the Winds of Wisconsin, a new youth ensemble at the UW-Madison.
Wisconsin lawmakers must continue to provide state dollars for the Wisconsin Institutes for Discovery.
The first grants for research at the interdisciplinary center show how promising the venture is and why it must be strongly supported.
Lawmakers wisely approved $50 million in state money last year to help build the first phase of the public-private Wisconsin Institutes for Discovery.
Wisconsin women, as a group, are still earning smaller paychecks than men, according to a new report. The report, issued by UW- Madison’s Center on Wisconsin Strategy and the Wisconsin Women’s Council, was timed for release on International Women’s Day on Thursday.
Prevention magazine named Madison â?? 1,300 miles north of sunny Miami â?? as the most walkable of the country’s 100 most populated cities. The list was commissioned by the American Podiatric Medical Association based on certain criteria. It ran in editions of the magazine released this week.
UW-Madison mentioned in story, student quoted, etc.
Universities have plumbed a rich source of cash in recent years by aggressively patenting and licensing faculty inventions, but some schools now want to set limits on the practice. An elite group–11 top research institutions and the Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC)–have signed a pledge to take a kinder, gentler approach to licensing intellectual property. Yesterday, they released principles on the sharing of patented discoveries, urging other universities to follow their lead.
MADISON, Wis. – A federal judge Thursday rejected a Catholic group’s attempt to get student fees from the University of Wisconsin, saying the organization is not controlled by students.
U.S. District Judge John Shabaz’s ruling means the UW-Madison Roman Catholic Foundation, for now, cannot receive more than $250,000 in student fees to run religious programming.
As more information emerges on what was said in University of Wisconsin Law School professor Leonard Kaplan’s class, we’re seeing a clearer picture of what took place on Feb. 15.
And the controversy over what was or wasn’t said detracts for the serious issue of how the Hmong and other minorities are treated â?? the issue Kaplan says he was trying to discuss with his students in the class.
With the thermometer hovering at 22, and the wind ripping off a frozen Lake Mendota, Rink DaVee and his brother Jim decided to take a stroll.
And why not? After all, according to a recent top 10 list, there’s no better place in the country for walking than the capital city of a state known more for cheese and beer than exercising.
“It makes you feel better,” DaVee said during a break in his walk Wednesday, standing on the icy, snow-covered trail that extends out over the lake. “It gets you through a cold month of March.”
Quoted: Thomas J. Archdeacon, a University of Wisconsin-Madison history professor and immigration policy expert.
Wisconsin lawmakers must continue to provide state dollars for the Wisconsin Institutes for Discovery.
The first grants for research at the interdisciplinary center show how promising the venture is and why it must be strongly supported.
Lawmakers wisely approved $50 million in state money last year to help build the first phase of the public-private Wisconsin Institutes for Discovery.
Full-page ads in college newspapers Friday call on university leaders, athletic conferences and the NCAA to “stop the madness” by banning alcohol marketing from college sports.
The ads, tied to March Madness and sponsored by the American Medical Association, were scheduled to run in college papers in six cities, in advance of the NCAA men’s basketball tournament.
Restaurant by day…club by night.
It’s becoming a popular trend in downtown Madison some fear opens Pandora’s box of potential problems.
A former club owner, Kami Eshraghi, told us last Sunday more and more restaurants in Madison are pushing aside the tables and clearing the dancefloor after-hours.
When UW Law School professor Leonard Kaplan ended his legal-process class on Feb. 15, there was no sign that he had offended anyone. There were no questions or complaints, and no one approached him afterward.
Yet offend he did, during a discussion about conflicts between culture and the legal system in which he used Hmong immigrants as an example.
A few days later, third-year law student KaShia Moua sent an e-mail citing four â??incredibly offensive and racistâ? remarks she said Kaplan had made during a â??10-minute rant about the Hmong.â? Among them: â??Hmong men have no skills other than killingâ? and â??All second-generation Hmong end up in gangs and other criminal activity.â?
In a technical sense, a ruling by a federal judge Thursday handed defeats to both the University of Wisconsin at Madison and to a Roman Catholic group seeking to receive support through student fees at the university. But the fault that the judge found with the Catholic group is one that it can fairly easily fix. On the key issue of legal philosophy, the judgeâ??s ruling was very much what the religious students wanted: an order that the university not deny them recognition on the basis of Madisonâ??s non-discrimination policy.
Q: How do we know there’s no alternative universe with different dimensions?
Selma Anderson Grade 8 Sennett Middle School
A: “We don’t know that,” says UW-Madison physicist Gary Shiu. “There could be many (universes) and we happen to be living in one of them.”
Wisconsin students planning to enter a public college or university in Minnesota next fall can now count on paying their own in-state tuition fees for the next four years.
The two states’ higher education boards said Wednesday that the existing tuition reciprocity deal will continue – at least for now.
George Corrigan doesn’t consider himself the activist type.
But the 46-year-old patent attorney has mounted a campaign to stop the U.S. Department of Homeland Security from selecting land in the town of Dunn for the National Bio- and Agro-Defense Facility.
It’s hard to tell right now who will face the biggest test Saturday night at the Kohl Center. Is it the top-ranked University of Wisconsin women’s hockey team, which plays host to perennial power Harvard in an NCAA regional game that will send the winner to the Frozen Four?
Quoted: Ron Carda, physical education professor at the University of Wisconsinâ??Madison and Ph.D. in exercise physiology, said there should be two basic goals for the first six weeks of any new exercise regimen.
BJ&B was the only unionized factory in the Dominican Republic’s Free Trade Zone, until its closing was announced on February 22, due to Nike pulling out all its business.
This exemplifies how Nike business practices lead to international sweatshop exploitation. Not only is Nike a major supplier of retail University of Minnesota apparel, but the University athletics department is in the process of finalizing a $9 million exclusive merchandising contract that would make them the sole producer of University uniforms and sports gea
Quoted: Stanley Kutler, Professor Emeritus of Law at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, and a nationally recognized expert in the presidency.
MADISON, Wis. — President George W. Bush is calling on a former University of Wisconsin-Madison chancellor to co-lead an investigation into the country’s military hospitals.
Donna Shalala, who was the secretary of Health and Human Services during the Clinton administration, along with former U.S. Sen. Bob Dole will guide a probe into the problems at the nation’s military hospitals, including Walter Reed Army Medical Center, WISC-TV reported.
New House ethics rules that restrict lobbyist-funded travel exempt trips paid for by colleges and universities, a powerful lobbying force in Washington. Colleges, universities and other higher-education groups spent at least $75 million on federal lobbying efforts in 2005, and more than $900,000 on travel for lawmakers since 2000, according to a USA TODAY analysis of travel and lobbying reports compiled by non-partisan data-tracking firms.
Two months ago, NBC 15 told you of one family’s mission to remember their son by rebuilding the lives of other young men. This week, the family of Aaron Meyer is one step closer.
In 2003, 16-year-old Aaron Meyer became addicted to marijuana. His family sent him to Mount Bachelor Academy in the state of Oregon for seventeen months of rehabilitation and recovery. Aaron was completely sober when he was killed in car accident just after his eighteenth birthday.
Measured in constant dollars and per student, state and local support for public higher education has been falling but rebounded in fiscal 2006, according to an analysis being released today by the State Higher Education Executive Officers.
The Department of Education plans to announce today that it will scale back a proposed expansion of its annual survey of colleges.
The announcement, which is scheduled to appear in a Federal Register notice this morning, comes just over a month after the department announced in another notice that it was seeking to add several new questions to the survey, known as the Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System, or Ipeds (The Chronicle, February 19).
The University of Wisconsin System has closed the book on making its salary data readily available online.
As of December, only parts of the System’s budget Redbook – the annual budget summaries for the System and all the individual campuses – are now posted.
At the end of October, Alando Tucker was tagged with the moniker of Big Ten Conference men’s basketball preseason player of the year. For the 31 games over the four-plus months that followed, the University of Wisconsin senior forward lived up to that billing.
As a result, a more prestigious and permanent title came Tucker’s way on Tuesday.
As soon as they started to appear, the quotes seemed remarkably offensive. The remarks were attributed to Leonard V. Kaplan, a professor of law at the University of Wisconsin at Madison. But a few weeks after the class in which he was alleged to have said those things, and after students at the law school exploded in anger as the comments were circulated by e-mail, a new view is starting to emerge.
WASHINGTON â?? Spring break it wasn’t.
With temperatures in the 20s and wind gusts that provided a chilly reminder of home, about 50 Wisconsin college students joined hundreds of others at an outdoor rally near the U.S. Capitol Tuesday as part of a day of lobbying lawmakers to help make college more affordable.
One lawmaker reminded the large conti
Each year, more than 25,000 women become pregnant after being raped. 16,000 of those unplanned pregnancies end in abortion. But, there is an alternative, one supported by most rape survivors and at least one state lawmaker.
“It was my second or third night there. My friends on the trip dragged me to the hospital. I didn’t even want to go. It never really occurred to me that this could result in pregnancy,” says Amanda Harrington, a 21-year-old UW student.
David Ward, president of the American Council on Education, announced on Tuesday that he would step down from his post in February 2008.
Mr. Ward has led the council, which represents more than 1,600 higher-education institutions, for five and a half years. He said he plans to stay in Washington and consult, write, and lecture on higher-education issues.
As soon as they started to appear, the quotes seemed remarkably offensive: â??Hmong women are better off now that Hmong men are dying off in this countryâ? or â??all Hmong men purchase their wives, so if he wants to have sex with his wife and she doesnâ??t consent, you and I call it rape, but the Hmong guy is thinking, â??man, I paid too much for her.â?? â? The remarks were attributed to Leonard V. Kaplan, a professor of law at the University of Wisconsin at Madison.
The Morgridge Center for Public Service at UW-Madison will mark its 10th anniversary with a conference titled “Celebrating the Many Faces of Public Service at UW-Madison” on Friday and Saturday.
The conference will focus on UW-Madison’s past as a leader in public service, as well as the current accomplishments and goals of the Morgridge Center.
A legendary mathematical mystery, posed by the famous Indian mathematician Srinivasa Ramanujan on his deathbed in 1920, has been solved by two UW-Madison number theorists.
The problem had to do with the nature and functions of a set of strangely recurring numbers called “mock theta functions.”
When the UW Belly Dance Club presents its 7th annual spring show at Union Theater on Saturday, the group wants to shake up myths about the moves and, of course, to entertain the crowd.
On Sunday afternoon, students trudged up and down Spring Street, weighed down by laundry, groceries and backpacks full of books.
I stood in their path, like the scary nagging mom they thought they left at home.
I asked, “Have you heard?”
I told them, “A student said she was attacked here early Saturday morning.”
I demanded, “What are you doing to be safe on campus?”
To a one, all of the dozen or so college girls I talked to said yes, they were aware, and yes they were being more careful about their safety.
