MADISON, Wis. — Hospitals are preparing for an influx of partiers as both University of Wisconsin hockey teams and at home in addition to the Halloween party this weekend.Meriter Hospital is adding extra doctors, nurses, transporters and bulking up on supplies in the emergency room.
The effort to exploit the most lucrative college student demographic backfired recently when a digital music downloading service got ahold of thousands of Facebook users’ emails by falsely setting up their own group profile and luring students to join, reports eSchool News.
Did you hear the one about the law professor who wrote a book about lawyer jokes that wasn’t so funny?
Sorry. There is no punch line. It’s a true story. Marc Galanter, a law professor at the University of Wisconsin, has given us “Lowering the Bar: Lawyer Jokes & Legal Culture,” a book that uses a vast and impressive collection of past and present lawyer jokes to help identify and explain both the causes and results of our national love-hate (these days mostly “hate”) relationship with the legal profession.
Quoted: Volker Radeloff, an assistant professor at the University of Wisconsin at Madison and an expert on the wildlands-urban interface.
A University of Wisconsin study of 14 students found that two energy drink ingredients, caffeine and taurine, didn’t improve short-term memory but led to slower heart rates and higher blood pressure. Since some energy drink ingredients generally speed up heart rates, the researchers could only speculate on the cause.
Quoted: Dennis Dresang, a political science professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Some nursing students won�t be asking for treats when they dress up for Halloween Tuesday and go door to door in La Crosse and Onalaska.
They want money donations to help them make a trip to Kenya so they can help children and families with AIDS.
Instead of taking a semester break this school year, eight students in the University of Wisconsin-Madison Western Campus nursing program at UW-L and Gundersen Lutheran will be working with AIDS orphans for three weeks in Kenya.
Quoted: Michael Bell, an environmental sociologist at the University of Wisconsin.
MADISON, Wis. – A look down on southern Wisconsin shows a landscape shifting from massive farms to rural homes, to neighborhoods, to a brightly lit city between two large lakes. That’s Madison, home to 222,000 people, about 150 miles of bike trails, more than 50 live music venues, at least two specialty cheese shops and the University of Wisconsin.
MADISON, Wis. (AP) ââ?¬â? Elroy Hirsch played only one season of football for the
Wisconsin Badgers. But the halfback nicknamed “Crazylegs” left so indelible a mark on the
program that the school officially retired his No. 40 on Saturday.
The crowd was a lot smaller, but so were the problems, at an annual Halloween party that ended without violence or the use of pepper spray as it had in recent years.
MADISON, Wis. — A group of UW Madison journalism students will cover the Halloween celebrations in Madison this weekend.
Who� better� to� cover� the� student revelry� in� Madison this weekend than the students themselves?
Quoted: University of Wisconsin-Madison political scientist Charles Franklin.
Quoted: Lew Friedland, a professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Journalism and Mass Communication.
Quoted: University of Wisconsin-Madison astronomer Jay Gallagher, who is a member of a science team responsible for one of Hubble’s cameras.
The University of Wisconsin System and state lawmakers are on opposite sides of a cultural divide, and many political observers worry that the outcome of the state’s gubernatorial race could widen that rift.
The sculpture of Barry Alvarez that stands outside the main entrance to Camp Randall Stadium is remarkable not only in its detail, but its message.
From the pair of regulation Adidas shoes on his feet, to the watch on his left wrist that says it’s 7:24, to the stressed expression on his face, Alvarez looks much like he did on the sidelines during his final seasons as University of Wisconsin football coach.
Early on during the 20 or so years I worked in Washington, D.C., I concluded that the main function of the many statues in that monument-obsessed city is to give pigeons a place to poop.
Here in Madison, we know the two statues recently erected at the University of Wisconsin’s Camp Randall — one a tower of spheroid objects, the other a likeness of former coach and current athletic director Barry Alvarez — serve a higher purpose. That would be the glorification of big-time college football.
The Night Before The Planned Big Bash Was Festive But Calm.
Crowds picked up and became rowdier as the hour approached midnight on State Street on Friday night, but the mood remained mostly calm ahead of tonight’s main Halloween event.
It almost couldn’t have gone any better.
For the first time in four years, the Halloween party on State Street did not end with police in riot gear and clouds of pepper spray.
Relatively calm… that’s how police are describing the first night of Madison’s Halloween Celebration.
Police made 68 arrests on or near State Street overnight. 13 of those people were taken to jail.
MADISON, Wis. — The months of planning by city leaders and students appears to have paid off as the annual Halloween party on State Street concluded early Sunday morning without the riots and mayhem that marred the event in past years.
MADISON, Wis. — Former UW football player Levonne Rowan was arrested Saturday night following a disturbance on the UW campus.
The Mayor who says there is plenty of credit to go around. The mayor faced a lot of criticism when he said the city would charge a five dollar fee to enter State Street, but as he told me today: Everyone looks smart this morning.
The City of Madison and local police were prepared for the worst. Unlike previous Halloweens, this year’s Freakfest did not end in pepper spray.
When officers arrived another fight broke out. Officers used pepper spray and a taser to break up the fight after several officers were hit.
Madison Ald. Mike Verveer was almost gleeful.
“I’m exceedingly pleasantly surprised,” he said at 2:40 am, early Sunday morning. “I’m in the command post now and they’re packing up and going home. The only police left on State are those patrol cars avoiding the street sweepers. Half of State Street is clean and it’s only bartime now.”
In recent years, Verveer had been among the group of city officials and police leadership fretting over the necessity of using pepper spray and other measures to quell a late-night crowd intent on destruction of property at worst and a brush with confrontation at best.
The University of California disproportionately serves the state’s highest-income, best-educated families, and UC needs to look beyond test scores so high-school graduates from all backgrounds get a fair chance of being admitted, say two faculty reports released Friday.
While making no guarantees of a problem-free event, police and city officials say they’re as prepared as they can be for the first staged Halloween bash Saturday on State Street.”We’re excited about it,” Madison police spokesman Mike Hanson said Thursday. “This is something we have planned for so many months, and now it’s time to play ball.”
For establishments such as State Street Brats, preparations for Saturday’s Halloween celebration have been weeks in the making.”Halloween is probably the biggest weekend,” said Tyler Kneubuehl, a manager at the tavern. “We will probably do about four or five times the business we do on a regular Saturday.”
Police and security guards won’t be the only people keeping an eye on State Street during Halloween.
“The cameras that we have in place allow us to zoom in very close to help identify individuals and help track officers well, but their also able to scale back to see the size of the crowd so they’re a very useful too, Mike Hanson said.”
Nate Nelson said the waste of taxpayer dollars and tuition money is disgusting.
And according to the University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh College Republicans, the decision by UWO’s Campus Greens to invite controversial University of Wisconsin-Madison lecturer Kevin Barrett to speak Thursday night was just that, a waste.
Quoted: David Null, director of university archives at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
MADISON, Wis. — As the annual Halloween party on State Street draws near, police are busy settling into their command center where they will keep a watchful eye on the event.
MADISON, Wis. — A lawsuit claiming that Madison bar owners illegally conspired to raise prices when they voluntarily banned drink specials on weekends has been thrown out. Madison’s downtown bar owners celebrated the decision Thursday, but they warned that a legal battle that has cost them more than $500,000 is not over.
MADISON, Wis. — Gov. Jim Doyle paints his re-election bid in stark terms: If voters choose his opponent, they will shut down stem cell research that could mean medical cures for debilitating illnesses and an economic boom for Wisconsin.
Madison city officials� say they are satisified a security firm with a checkered past will be able to handle the big crowd expected on state street this weekend.
Dear Halloween revelers, Most of Madison is making a good-faith effort to produce a safer and less costly Halloween bash Downtown on Saturday night. It’s now up to you to make the same effort.
Quoted: Stephen Malpezzi, a housing economist at the University of Wisconsin School of Business.
Kevin Barrett, a University of Wisconsin-Madison lecturer and Sept. 11, 2001 conspiracy theorist, laid out his views on why officials accounts of the terrorist attacks are incomplete during an event Thursday at the University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh that drew interested listeners and protestors.
Barrett came to UWO as part of an event held by the Campus Greens about Sept. 11, 2001 and academic freedom.
MADISON, Wis. — A state appeals court on Thursday threw out a lawsuit claiming the owners of two dozen bars illegally conspired to raise prices when they banned drink specials on weekend nights.
The District 4 Court of Appeals upheld a lower court finding that the bar owners’ action in 2002 was exempt from antitrust laws because it amounted to a political compromise with city officials who were threatening tighter regulations at the time.
MADISON – To avoid the drunken violence and mayhem that previously marred a downtown Halloween party that attracts up to 100,000 people, city leaders are imposing new restrictions and tighter controls this year.
Kevin Barrett wants the world to open its eyes and minds and, at the very least, listen to the theory that our United States government was a co-conspirator in the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.
Most consider that idea poorly-supported nonsense. To a few, it’s a frightening reality.
Earlier this month, the folklore department at the University of Wisconsin-Madison sponsored an event billed as “9/11: Folklore and Fact.”
Held in the university’s social sciences building, two leaders in what is known as the “9/11 Truth”ââ?¬â?Kevin Barrett and James Fetzerââ?¬â?came to discuss their notion that 9/11 resulted not from the actions of al Qaeda, but from a Bush Administration conspiracy. As Barrett has claimed on many occasions, he doesn’t “believe, but knows that 9/11 was an inside job.”
(AP) — Cornell University is going all-out this week.
Thursday features a news conference in New York City with the mayor. On Friday, 1,000 volunteers and wealthy alumni such as former Citigroup chairman Sanford “Sandy” Weill will be back on the main campus in Ithaca, New York, for an elaborate dinner. The menu: a salad that includes wild mushrooms and sweet vermouth cheesecake, marinated beef tenderloin and a hazelnut Godiva chocolate tart with minted raspberry sauce.
Cornell should more than recoup the bill. The festivities are kicking off a campaign to raise $4 billion.
The state Appeals Court ruled today that 24 campus-area bars in Madison did not illegally conspire to fix prices by limiting drink specials.
At colleges across the country, students will be dressing up and downing drinks this weekend, engaging in any number of tricks not for kids. Traditions, new and old, die hard on Halloween. One legendary party is being resurrected, another lives on, while others on campus use Halloween as an opportunity to do good ââ?¬â? and even, strange as it may seem, to address the countryââ?¬â?¢s challenges in science education.
Kevin Barrett is visiting the campus today. He is the UW-Madison temp who thinks that the Bush administration was involved in the 9-11 attacks. His visit has already generated much more attention than he deserves, but as the campus professor who teaches a course on the U.S. presidency, I feel it is important to add a few more words about his ideas and what the controversy over his appearance here teaches us.
Academic freedom and theories about Sept. 11, 2001 will be the focus of controversial University of Wisconsin-Madison lecturer Kevin Barrett’s presentation at the University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh on Thursday.
Wisconsin deserves a competitive edge in the knowledge economy, and the University of Wisconsin System and its institutions are ready to lead the way. The solution we are proposing to the Wisconsin Legislature is a “Growth Agenda for Wisconsin” that will contribute to the state’s economy in three ways.
Quoted: Nina Emerson of the Impaired Driving Resource Center at the University of Wisconsin Law School.
In May, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) forecast an above-normal Atlantic hurricane season, with up to 16 named storms and 10 full-blown hurricanes, six of them Category 3 or greater.
But with the August-through-October peak nearly over and only nine named storms to date – five of which reached hurricane status – this year’s season, which ends Nov. 30, looks pretty low-key.
Throughout the presidencies of Jefferson and Madison, France and Britain were at war. Both belligerents seized American merchantmen suspected of carrying contraband or having British sailors on their crews.
Kaminski is director of the Center for the Study of the American Constitution at UW-Madison.
Gov. Jim Doyle on Wednesday laid out a plan to allow middle-class families to deduct the entire cost of college tuition, books and fees from their taxes as part of the next biennial budget.
Doyle made the announcement during a campaign stop at Reeve Memorial Union on the University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh campus Wednesday afternoon. Under his proposal, single parents earning $50,000 or less and couples earning $80,000 or less would be able to deduct tuition expenses of up to $6,000, the current cost to attend UW-Madison, for any public or private university and technical colleges.
MADISON, Wis. — Tens of thousands of tickets are still available for Madison’s unofficial Halloween party on State Street, Freakfest
In a bar just a few steps off State street is where Wanda Baker and her friends spent Wednesday night.
And that’s as close as they’ll be on Saturday, when the area is fenced off for thousands of partiers.
Local businesses hope for a boost in Halloween ticket sales for State Street over the next few days.
A UW expert says the war in Iraq and mounting American casualties this month could be deciding factors in who controls Congress after November 7th.
Republicans who are hoping to keep control of Congress are in a difficult position, with heavy American casualties in Iraq in the weeks leading up to the elections. That’s the view of UW political scientist Charles Franklin, who says Republicans can’t “repudiate” their support for the war, but also realize it’s no longer popular. Franklin says Democrats also face a tough position because they’ve been critical of the war…but can’t call for an immediate withdrawal of troops.
