Police on Monday said they believe the abductions and sexual assaults of two UW-Madison students in the past two weeks were committed by the same person, raising the prospect of a serial rapist at work on and around campus.
Recent optimism over a possible era of improved relations between the University of Wisconsin System and the Legislature in the coming legislative session may have been premature.
For Christina Hanna, it was a Toto moment.
Not long after starting a new semester of study last winter, the UW-Madison student looked outside and saw monkeys.
Quoted: Susan Nitzke, a dietitian who teaches at the University of Wisconsin in Madison.
LOS ANGELES (Kyodo) 2006 saw the completion of two projects that challenge perceptions about Japanese soldiers and World War II.
With the June publication of cultural anthropologist Emiko Ohnuki-Tierney’s book “Kamikaze Diaries: Reflections of Japanese Student Soldiers” and the premiere of Clint Eastwood’s film “Letters from Iwo Jima,” the image of Japanese soldiers created in the milieu of World War II propaganda will receive a long-overdue makeover.
Recent works focusing on the personal writings of the Japanese who died for their country provide Americans a chance to learn, perhaps for the first time, who these soldiers actually were.
Ohnuki-Tierney, a Japanese native and a professor of anthropology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, came across the letters of Japanese “tokkotai” (special attack corps) pilots — men assigned to suicide missions — while doing research for a book about the use of symbolism and nationalism in Japanese military history.
Quoted: Stefan Hastenrath of the University of Wisconsin, who has climbed, poked, photographed and measured east Africa�s glaciers for four decades.
What if Wisconsin voters in the recent election had been asked, as Michigan voters were, to amend the state constitution to “ban public institutions from using affirmative action programs that give preferential treatment to groups or individuals based on their race, gender, color, ethnicity or national origin for public employment, education or contracting purposes”?
Quoted: Carey Gleason, a dementia researcher at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Quoted: Alfred McCoy, professor of history at the University of Wisconsin-Madison
Quoted: Brian Rust, communications manager with the division of information technology at UW-Madison, said you can legally download only files for which you have copyright permission.
MADISON, Wis. — University of Wisconsin-Madison officials said that the campus is on high alert on Monday and they are launching a public awareness campaign after a string of sexual assaults in recent weeks.
On Monday, Madison police said that they believe two of the attacks on young women who were walking alone are related. Both victims were UW students who were abducted and then assaulted.
They have the ideas …
“We had been looking at the neighborhood watch program,” said one student.
And now they have the money …
“At the beginning of rolling all this money out,” said another student.
… to make their ideas, realities.
If you’re thinking about going to the Capital One Bowl you better act fast.
The Wisconsin Alumni Association says it’s sold out of air, hotel and ticket packages.
It says it does have a few game day packages, which includes a bowl ticket and pre-game tailgate.
This is a busy time of year for foot traffic at the UW. The fall semester is coming to a close with final exams starting this weekend, and for many students that means late-night walks home from the library. Police and UW leaders are working together to make sure there isn’t another sexual assault attack on campus
MADISON, Wis. — Free UW tuition, the phrase is enough to get nearly every parent to take a look.
The proposed program being talked about across the state would offer free UW tuition in exchange for students making a 10-year commitment to live and work in Wisconsin after graduation.
The program is meant to help UW students and the state’s economy.
The latest happened early Saturday morning – the victim was forced into a car in the 500 block of North Carroll.
Less than two weeks ago, another student was abducted on Observatory Drive. Madison Police say there are too many similarities to ignore.
In both cases, the suspect description is similar, and in both cases, the victims were abducted… and then dropped off…
A commission of leaders in business, academics, and government proposed a unique plan to offer free tuition to any campus in the UW system in exchange for a promise to live and work in Wisconsin for ten years after graduating.
For months, dangers in downtown Madison have gotten to the point, the community was called together to find a solution.
Alex Sheridan is part of the Langdon Street Neighborhood Watch Program.
Michigan State University, the University of Michigan, and Wayne State University jointly filed a motion on Monday asking a federal judge to let them complete their current admissions cycles without complying with the state’s new ban on affirmative-action preferences.
The motion asks Judge David M. Lawson of the U.S. District Court in Detroit to delay enforcement of the preference ban, scheduled to take effect on December 23, until the universities have completed their admissions and financial-aid decisions for next fall.
On Day 25 of a hunger strike at Purdue University, Mark Francioseââ?¬â?¢s fatigue registered even through the phone lines. His tired, quiet voice ââ?¬â? and the sustained pauses in conversation ââ?¬â? conveyed just how much he was struggling to fully wake up early Monday afternoon.
(SUPERIOR) The scrap between a Christian student group and the University of Wisconsin may be over, after a change of wording in a policy passed Friday by the Board of Regents. Inter-Varsity Christian Fellowship was rejected as a campus organization by a student government committee at UW-Superior last semester. The committee contended that since the Fellowship required its leaders to be Christian, that it discriminated against non-Christians. Inter-Varsity sued, and the Board of Regents re-wrote the policy. It still bans discrimination on the basis of religion and other things, but adds wording that gives student groups flexibility.
UW-Madison senior Anna Grundstrom said it’s emotional to visit New Ulm, Minn.
Grundstrom, who’s been riding horses since she was 5 years old, left behind one of her favorite horses, Zahmbo, when she moved from New Ulm to Madison in 2002.
Q: What is the financial education center at UW-Madison that you’re helping to develop?
A: We’re still working on the mission of it, but it’s very much in concept form. It’s research and outreach. It’s yet another avenue to get consumer education into people’s hands and to help people with the behavior change of that. We all know that working out is really good for us, but actually getting to the gym is the next leap and there’s a disconnect in the same way with financial services. We all know we would be better off in the future by saving money but doing it is a whole other aspect.
Quoted: Sanjay Limaye of the University of Wisconsin in Madison.
In the span of his first eight NHL games, Joe Pavelski has scored in his debut, put together a three-game goal-scoring streak and scored a game-winner in the final six seconds of regulation to give the Sharks a rare win in Detroit.
In August, Mayor Helen Johnson held a community meeting to discuss interest in a community food cooperative. Representatives from the Willy Street Co-op and the UW- Madison Center for Cooperatives attended to provide information about starting a grassroots store. The response from the community was strong, Borchardt said.
UW-Madison students were assigned to write profiles of businesses on State Street, Downtown Madison’s unique cultural and shopping zone where 80 percent of businesses are locally owned. The stores and restaurants the students chose – ranging from a chocolatier to an import store to a landmark watering hole reflect State Street’s claim as the place Madisonians go to shop, dine and play.
Another Madison woman has been sexually assaulted by a stranger, in the third such random attack in the city in less than two weeks.
“It is unusual to have that many in this period of time,” Madison police Sgt. Dave McClurg said Saturday.
No arrests have been made.
References drug disposal programs at UW Hospital and Clinics.
Quoted: Norm Fost, UW medical ethics professor.
ST. CLOUD, Minn. ââ?¬â? Vanishing students. Dead bodies. Fears of something sinister lurking. A string of college student drownings across the Midwest has all the makings of great mystery.Rumors have persisted for years that a serial killer is prowling Interstate 94, hunting young men in college bars and plunging them underwater. Investigators, though, say thereââ?¬â?¢s no evidence of foul play. They say the victims were so drunk they fell in the river and died.
MADISON, Wis. — A public works project slated to begin on West Mifflin Street in Madison this spring prompted a stir on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus about the fate of the Mifflin Street Block Party.
Quoted: Dan Anderson, an insurance professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
University of Wisconsin System President Kevin Reilly promised Friday that campuses will guard against the misuse of information gathered in criminal background checks now required for all new employees.
Police were investigating three sexual assaults by strangers in less than two weeks.The first happened Nov. 29, the second last Tuesday and the most recent was at about 3 a.m. Saturday. No arrests have been made.
A new national survey shows that state spending on higher education is continuing to rise throughout most of the nation and growing faster than kudzu in much of the South.
Total state general-fund appropriations for higher education are up by 7 percent, to $72.18-billion, in the current 2006-7 fiscal year, according to an annual survey conducted by the Center for the Study of Education Policy, at Illinois State University.
MADISON, Wis. — Strep throat is what’s going around these days, according to Madison arean doctors and health care professionals.
Pediatricians at University of Wisconsin Hospital said that they’re seeing a lot of cases lately, WISC-TV reported.
Police are investigating their third sexual assault case in less than two weeks.
No suspect is in custody for any of the assaults.
The latest involves a female UW student assaulted in the 500 block of North Carroll street early Saturday morning.
The Mifflin Street Block Party earned its raunchy reputation almost from the very beginning. Police and partiers clashed at its birth in 1969, when it was actually a protest, and not a drinking event. Riots in 1996 also put partiers against police.
The Iraq Study Group says US policy has to change. The President says it will but a UW-political scientist thinks it will be a mixed bag
The UW’s Jon Pevehouse says some of the Study Group’s recommendations will be followed even if the administration may not give them credit. We’ll probably see a drawdown of troops but when and at what pace is uncertain.
Q: What is the best way to quit smoking?
A: Dr. Michael Fiore, director of the UW Center for Tobacco Research and Intervention, says there is no “magic bullet pill” to quit smoking. However, using a combination of medication and coaching can dramatically improve smokers’ chances of quitting.
ENVIRONMENTALISM IS A kind of religion, and that�s OK, William Cronon told an audience of 150 at the Chicago History Museum in late November. Just don�t get fundamentalist about it. To put it another way, Joni Mitchell was wrong: there is no garden, we can�t get back to it, and trying to do so will just make it harder to protect nature.
Cronon teaches history at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He�s no stranger to the museum, formerly the Chicago Historical Society, having camped out in its library researching his 1991 blockbuster Nature�s Metropolis: Chicago and the Great West.
Autistic male teens and young men with severe social impairment tend to have an abnormally small amygdala — the brain’s “fear center” — U.S. researchers report.The almond-shaped amygdala is located deep within the brain. Reporting in the December issue of theArchives of General Psychiatry, a team at the University of Wisconsin used MRI to examine the study participants’ brains, specifically the amygdala.
Texas A&M University will guarantee admission to students ââ?¬â? many of them from low-income families ââ?¬â? at nine community colleges as part of a push to increase diversity on campus.
MADISON, Wis. (AP) – Acknowledging public confusion, University of Wisconsin System regents delayed action Thursday on a new admissions policy that would give greater weight to nonacademic factors including race and income.
Members of the regents� education committee said they supported the plan but needed more time to gather input and explain it to the public and lawmakers. They said they anticipated voting on the proposal in February.
MADISON, Wis. — A push for salary and benefits increases for the University of Wisconsin System employees is on the regents’ agenda in Madison on Thursday.
The Board of Regents is expected to ask for a 5.2 percent raise for faculty and academic staff every year for the next four years.
The goal is to bring their salaries in line with other universities, but some lawmakers said that it might be unrealistic given pressures on the state budget.
The regents are also expected to again ask lawmakers to change state law to allow partners of gay and lesbian employees to be eligible for health insurance benefits.
Her mother called it a negotiable proposition. But to Jean Lynch-Thomason, a 17-year-old with bipolar disorder who started college this fall, her mom�s notion to fly from their home in Nashville to her campus in Olympia, Wash., every few weeks to monitor Jean�s illness felt needlessly intrusive.
Student protesters lined the librarl mall today, arguing that Chancellor John Wiley is ignoring campus opinion. He recently banned student groups from using student fees to pay for rent and overhead expenses. As a result, some student groups say they’ll have to shut down.
“We’re asking him to listen to us and do what’s right for stud organizations,” said Kellie Sanders, vice chair of the student government’s finance committee.
27 News has uncovered Audrey Seiler, the former UW-Madison student whose disappearance from campus captivated the nation and then left people stunned when authorities revealed she faked her own kidnapping, has made several recent visits to Madison, including a night at a campus bar last month.
I am writing on my own accord, as a student of Dr. Kevin Barrett�s at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. His 15-week course on Islam is almost over, and I wanted to take a moment to describe how the class has turned out as most people have not had the opportunity to attend the lectures.
When I signed up for African Studies 370, ââ?¬Å?Islam: Religion and Culture,ââ?¬Â I knew nothing about Dr. Barrett and was unaware that he was teaching the course. However, I am very glad I took this class. Yes, Dr. Barrett has controversial views on how 9/11 unfolded.
The internet is making plagiarism easier than ever for students at UW and colleges nationwide.Ã? It seems to be a losing battle for professors and administrators.The UW reported 44 violations last year.Ã?Â
Many more instances go unreported by professors, who instead verbally warn the student.Ã? “Maybe we’re naive.Ã? Maybe we haven’t been as vigilant as we should be,” said James Baughman, director of UW’s journalism
Quoted: Michael Gutter, University of Wisconsin-Extension financial specialist.
Billing this ââ?¬Å?a silent crisisââ?¬Â in the stateââ?¬â?¢s educational system, Reilly wonders what the other 70 kids will do. He worries they could constitute the first generation to be less educated than their parents. With 25.5 percent, Badgerland is behind the national average of 27 percent in residents holding baccalaureate degrees and behind Minnesota, which is at 32 percent.
A review of The Making of the Fittest: DNA and the Ultimate Forensic Record of Evolution.
The University of Wisconsin System already has a school of public health. It is in Madison.
For that reason, the UW Board of Regents should reject a proposal to begin a years-long, multi- million-dollar effort to build a school of public health in Milwaukee.
Quoted: Charles Franklin, a political science professor at the University of Wisconsin.
Quoted: Michael J. Smith, a professor in the University of Wisconsin’s industrial and systems engineering department.
UW-Madison junior Amanda Green and other members of the Student Rights Coalition will be on State Street Mall today gathering signatures to make a point about the role students should play in deciding how to spend the millions of dollars collected each year in student segregated fees.
MADISON, Wis. – New University of Wisconsin System employees would be subjected to criminal background checks under a controversial and expensive proposal meant to increase security on campuses.UW System President Kevin Reilly is recommending the plan in response to an audit that found 40 felons on the system payroll and campus policies that vary widely on which positions require a check.
People who exhibit antisocial behavior fall into two distinct groups, according to behavioral scientists Terrie E. Moffitt and Avshalom Caspi, both at King’s College London and the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
