Michael Xenos is a communications professor at UW and conducted the study. He says, “A lot of young people…don’t get more involved in politics because nobody is speaking to them. Nobody is making a direct appeal to them.”
Quoted: Political scientist John Coleman.
Quoted: UW-Madison political science professor Charles Franklin.
Alarmed by a rise in crime too close to home, UW- Madison’s Greek organizations are stepping up to help improve safety with a new neighborhood watch program designed to put more eyes – and feet – on Langdon Street.
“Saving Lives, One Animal at a Time.” That’s the message behind a new non-profit that’s reaching out to communities without a shelter for animals. A local UW veterinary medical student founded the organization, which is making tails wag — and people take notice.
So many UW sports teams are ranked nationally right now, it is enough to make your head spin. You could call it a circle of success. The athletic department says solid coaching and talented players foster wins, which attract more coaches and players to Wisconsin.
“We had four national champions last year, mens and women’s hockey, men’s crosscountry and women’s lightweight crew,” says UW Senior Associate Athletic Director Vince Sweeney. “That’s pretty much unprecendented in our history.”
(PORTLAND, OREGON) Many college students may be left ill-informed about safer sex and more at risk for STDs and unintended pregnancies because of a lack of access to information about sexual health at some schools. Thatââ?¬â?¢s one conclusion of the newly-released ââ?¬Å?Sexual Health Report Card.ââ?¬Â The survey by Sperlingââ?¬â?¢s Best Places is the first that grades the sexual health of colleges and universities across the country. However, many schools were found to be doing a good job of providing essential information to students about sexual health.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison was ranked 21st among the 100 universities surveyed. It received grades of ââ?¬Å?Aââ?¬Â for website information, access to contraception, and testing for HIV and STDs. However, it only received a ââ?¬Å?Cââ?¬Â for sexual assault services, a ââ?¬Å?Dââ?¬Â for lecture and outreach and an ââ?¬Å?Fââ?¬Â in the category for access to a sex advice column in the school paper.
Rita Vosters, a clinical associate professor of nursing at UW-Madison, said she has talked about the Gant incident in her classes this year.
“Hopefully it will make nurses more careful with medications,” she said.
The criminal charge “will be difficult on nurses,” Vosters said. “Most nurses do the best job they can . . . But sometimes mistakes happen.”
It sometimes seems that the UW-Madison campus is gobbling up the city. But a tour this Saturday presented by the Madison Trust for Historic Preservation reminds us that the university was once just an ambitious idea and a big wooded hill.
Quoted: Political scientist Katherine Cramer Walsh.
Soviet dissident Mikhail Baitalsky once quipped: “Fighting against the increasing consumption of alcohol is like Don Quixote’s campaign against the windmills. Sensible people don’t engage in such tomfoolery.”
M. Lawrence Schrad is a lecturer and doctoral candidate at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
When it comes to the University of Wisconsin System, Gov. Jim Doyle and U.S. Rep. Mark Green agree on one thing: They both want tuition to increase no more than 3% next year.
But their positions on issues ranging from UW-Madison admissions to a proposed merger between UW-Milwaukee and UW-Waukesha show some substantial differences.
Quoted: Barry Burden, of the University of Wisconsin-Madison Political Science Departmen.t
Q: Why do people have only two sets of teeth – baby and permanent?
A: Unlike reptiles and fish, which grow replacement teeth continuously to replace the ones that fall out (think of shark teeth), most mammals have but two sets of choppers. That’s largely a reflection of their complexity, says UW-Madison anthropologist John Hawks.
UW-Madison professor Ken Goldstein said the bulk of scholarly studies on the topic suggest that negative ads have either no effect on voter turnout or might even boost it.
You may not have noticed UW- Madison has eight teams ranked nationally in the top 25 of their sports. Say what you want about the meaning of polls and ratings, but that’s pretty impressive.
Third-party candidates often raise issues and offer perspectives not addressed by major- party candidates, said John Coleman, a professor of political science at UW-Madison.
Quoted: University of Wisconsin psychologist Seth Pollak.
An independent estimate by two economics professors at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, Rodolfo E. Manuelli and Ananth Seshadri, (ââ?¬Å?Human Capital and the Wealth of Nations,ââ?¬Â (http://www.ssc.wisc.edu/~manuelli/research/humcapwealthnation5_05.pdf) suggests that if variations in the quality of labor across nations are taken into account, other productivity factors need differ by only 27 percent to explain differences in per capita income.
Quoted: Deborah Carr, an associate professor of sociology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and at Rutgers University.
A compound found in red wine keeps middle-aged mice on a high-fat, high-calorie diet as healthy as mice on a healthy diet, according to research at the National Institute on Aging and Harvard Medical School.
Quoted: University of Wisconsin medical professor Dr. Richard Weindruch.
Some of UW-Madison’s most famous faces spend a little time with a few colorful cows.
Barry Alvarez and Brett Bielema autographed the CowParades’ “looking for Bucky” cow on Wednesday
“It’s a hard issue to go through on your own and just to know that there’s people around campus that you can contact and get with”, Lisa Noe said.
It’s a student lead class, teaching members the definition of sexual assault and what to do should it happen.
The University of Wisconsin at Madison, $1.807-billion as of October 17 (increase of $14.5-million in the last month); the goal was $1.5-billion by 2007.
The UW-Madison Greek community has started a new initiative to combat the growing problem of muggings near State Street in Madison.
Some of the Langdon Street fraternities and sororities are forming a neighborhood watch program.
Quoted: Charles Franklin, political science.
Quoted: Ken Goldstein, political science
Penn State football coach Joe Paterno wasn’t born yesterday.So, when the University of Wisconsin approached him about making the game on Saturday a night game, it didn’t take Paterno – who turns 80 on Dec. 21 – long to turn down that idea.
FBI analysts will review the La Crosse police investigation report into the most recent alcohol-related drowning death of a University of Wisconsin-La Crosse student, although no foul play is suspected in his death, police said Tuesday.
MADISON ââ?¬â? Stem cell researchers in Wisconsin say their work would be allowed to proceed if U.S. Rep. Mark Green is elected governor but worry about restrictions that could give other states an advantage.
Democratic Gov. Jim Doyle’s campaign has pledged to keep Wisconsin the stem cell leader and claimed Green, a Green Bay Republican, would stop the promising research.
Quoted: University of Wisconsin political science professor Charles Franklin says Wisconsin.
Andrew Polakowski, an 18-year-old freshman at Ohio State University, was among the last of 24 students who crammed into a dormitory elevator on Friday night, October 20, at 11:20 p.m. The students were all leaving the dorm together and wanted to stay together. The elevator has a maximum weight capacity of 2,500 pounds ââ?¬â? a total probably exceeded by 1,000 pounds with 24 students on board. As Polakowski entered, the elevator car began to descend without its doors closing. He tried to jump out, was pinned by the elevator, and was killed.
Total foreign enrollments at American graduate schools increased by 1 percent this fall, after three consecutive years of decline. In what is seen as a particularly promising sign, the number of new foreign students increased by 12 percent, suggesting that total enrollments should continue to rise.
Quoted: R. Alta Charo, a bioethicist at the University of Wisconsin at Madison.
Oct 30, 2006 ââ?¬â?Ã? LONDON (Reuters) – Keeping an active lifestyle can reduce the risk of developing an eye disease that is a leading cause of blindness in the elderly, researchers said on Tuesday.
Regular exercise can prevent blindness in old age, research shows.
Those who break into a sweat during exercise at least three times a week are 70 per cent less likely to develop age-related macular degeneration, the most common cause of blindness in the elderly.
Regular exercise could reduce the risk of an age-related eye disease, US research has suggested.
Researchers from the University of Wisconsin followed almost 4,000 men and women over 15 years, carrying out eye tests and recording levels of exercise.
They found those with an active lifestyle were 70% less likely to develop the degenerative eye disease than those with a sedentary lifestyle.
Michael Hughes was watching the cable sports network. The Woodlands High School was playing a football game in Texas.Hughes noticed the big W on the Woodlands helmets. It’s just like the University of Wisconsin “motion W.”He was stunned. And Wisconsin is all over Waukee, screaming trademark infringement about the design on the Warrior helmets?
“I think it’s safe to say that Doyle has a bit of a lead at the moment,” said pollster and UW-Madison political science professor Katherine Cramer Walsh.
Among the kudos the mayor passed out was one to the UW- Madison Intrafraternity Council, which voted earlier this semester to recommend against house parties on Halloween weekend. President Brian Burke said only one house had a party, but with a limited guest list.
Burke said the group will probably propose a ban on Halloween house parties. “It’s really hard to keep property and members safe in that environment,” Burke said.
Of the 243 arrests made at the Halloween event Saturday night and Sunday morning, more than half were not students, Madison Police Chief Noble Wray said Monday. Of the total, 68 arrests were UW- Madison students, 21 were from other University of Wisconsin System campuses, and 23 were from other schools.
Winner of the 2006 Wisconsin Governor’s Business Plan Contest, MatriLab has developed a medicated biological material that is sprayed onto a wound and “cured” in place. The technology came from the lab of UW-Madison biomedical engineering assistant professor John Kao, and tests are under way in Milwaukee.
How depressing, how utterly unjust, to be the one in your social circle who is aging least gracefully.
In a laboratory at the Wisconsin National Primate Research Center, Matthias is learning about time�s caprice the hard way. At 28, getting on for a rhesus monkey, Matthias is losing his hair, lugging a paunch and getting a face full of wrinkles.
Past Halloween celebrations in Madison, Wis. have been notorious for arson, looting and drunken brawls, sometimes instigated by students singing the Minnesota Rouser.
But this year�s festivities were much different.
Not too many cities would count a night with 250 arrests in the plus column, but the city of Madison was willing to chalk this one up in the win column as it closed the books on Halloween 2006.
Quoted: Charles Franklin, a University of Wisconsin-Madison political science professor.
Quoted: Charles Franklin, a professor of political science at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Governor Doyle campaigned at the University of Wisconsin in Madison today with US Senator Russ Feingold.
Doyle criticized Republican gubernatorial candidate Mark Green for voting in Congress to cut student aid programs, saying that has made college less affordable for middle class students.
The University of Florida has rejected offers to enter into an exclusive contract with multimedia provider Ruckus.com, which would have given students the opportunity to legally download music over the Internet.
MADISON, Wis. — Madison city officials said Monday that they were pleased with this weekend’s Halloween celebration on State Street, calling this year’s “Freakfest On State Street” an overwhelming success.
With attendance topping 35,000 and fewer arrests and damage reported than in previous years, city leaders said they met all their goals for the new “Freakfest,” which was a city-spearheaded attempt to corral the sometimes infamous annual event near the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus.
Arrests were down, goals were met, and no one left State Street choking on pepper spray. Now there’s already talk of again charging for Halloween 2007.
Madison police confirm to NBC-15 News that the body of a man was found in the pool of the Doubletree Hotel on West Johnson Street early Sunday morning.
Madison investigators say alcohol appears to be a factor.
By most accounts, the business of college sports appears as healthy as ever. The National Collegiate Athletic Association earns more than $500-million a year from its contract with CBS to televise the men’s basketball tournament — money that helps support hundreds of athletics programs. A record 64 football teams in the NCAA’s top division will receive a financial lift by appearing in a bowl game this season. And corporate sponsors and generous alumni are infusing millions more into athletics programs across the country.
For much of the past decade, and especially in the five years since Myles Brand became the first college president to lead the National Collegiate Athletic Association, the sports group has focused its efforts on passing rules aimed at ensuring that athletes in big-time sports programs get a meaningful education.
While Madison leaders are calling this year’s Halloween on State Street a success…police admit they came very close to seeing disturbances similar to those that have shut the event down with pepper spray the last few years.
A Madison alderman says this year’s Halloween on State Street may have been a success, but he still wants the city to back away from the annual celebration.
Governor Jim Doyle and US Senator Russ Feingold promote financial aid efforts. During a stop at the UW Madison Monday morning, Governor Doyle attacked Republican opponent Mark Green’s votes to cut financial aid while serving in Congress.
Quoted: Gloria Ladson-Billings, a University of Wisconsin-Madison education professor.
Bar patrons still talk about Luke Homanââ?¬â?¢s drowning. Students patrol Riverside Park. But the more things change, the more they stay the same when it comes to downtown La Crosse’s bar scene.Erin Tapper left a downtown bar early Oct. 15 after six hours, six mixed drinks and four beers. She headed west down Pearl Street.
The University of Wisconsin System has promoted a UW-Extension spokesman to a new position designed to improve communications with the public and relations with state lawmakers.
UW System President Kevin Reilly named David F. Giroux, director of public information for UW-Extension since 2000, to executive director for communications and external relations Friday.
