If you are a diehard follower of University of Wisconsin sports, you have no doubt gone to tremendous lengths to satisfy your passion.
You have bought pricey tickets, driven great distances, worn questionable attire, exposed yourself to the elements, been subjected to intense ridicule and yelled until your throat was raw.
So you think you know UW football? Sure, then answer this: If you’re having offensive line coach Bob Palcic over for dinner, what would he enjoy eating?
Pork.
With sauerkraut.
Madison City Council members representing the campus area want to delay a vote on the most controversial pieces of the mayor’s proposed plan to manage Halloween.
Quoted: Beth Graue, a professor of curriculum and instruction in the School of Education at UW- Madison.
We’re finally luring more venture capital for startup businesses and entrepreneurs. Our large manufacturing base, for the most part, is changing with the times and embracing technology.
Wisconsin also has a blossoming bio-science sector, thanks in large part to dynamic research at UW- Madison, which needs stronger support from state leaders.
Sarah Moen earned straight-A grades all the way through school except for that one B-plus in third grade.
But when she starts classes today as one of 5,600 freshmen at UW- Madison, she’ll be just another valedictorian starting over.
Ben Schumaker’s “Memory Project” already connects the lives of thousands of American high schoolers with children living in orphanages in some of the world’s poorest countries.
Tonight, it could grab the attention of millions of television viewers worldwide.
Now in its third year, the program founded by the UW- Madison grad in his former one-room sublet recruits artists at high schools across the country to create masterful portraits of the children, many of whom own nothing more than the clothes on their backs – and possess no other visual records of their childhoods.
Quoted: Elizabeth Graue, a University of Wisconsin at Madison professor in the curriculum and instruction department.
Friday night was the calm before the storm for former University of Wisconsin football coach Barry Alvarez.”Normally, I have a hard time sleeping the night before the game,” said Alvarez, the UW athletic director.But he slept well Friday night prior to the 2006 season opener against Bowling Green.
Shards of glass and dust from the World Trade Centre towers sit on Professor Steven Jones’s desk at Brigham Young University in Utah. Evidence, he says, of the biggest cover-up in history – one too evil for most to believe, but one he has staked his academic career on exposing.
The economy in Wisconsin is doing better than the workers.”The State of Working Wisconsin 2006,” a report by the Center on Wisconsin Strategy at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, shows that the state’s economy is growing, but the benefits of that growth are not widely shared.
Don�t you think parents of college-age children would want to know if they could get reduced tuition at six other Midwest states? They can.
University of Wisconsin System officials entered into a reciprocity agree ment called the Miwest Student Exchange Program that would allow discounts of thousands of dollars for Wisconsin students to go to schools in North Dakota, Nebraska, Minnesota, Kansas, Missouri and Michigan.
A university instructor talks to his students about a Sept. 11 conspiracy theory that says the Bush administration was involved in the attacks, and lawmakers call for him to be fired.
That’s the story that unfolded at the University of New Hampshire last week concerning psychology Professor William Woodward. It’s also the story of Kevin Barrett, an instructor at the University of Wisconsin at Madison who became the center of controversy in July.
While the two cases are not identical, they are parallel. So is the debate in the two states between unhappy lawmakers and administrators supporting the professors in the name of academic freedom.
Quoted: Alta Charo, a bioethicist at the University of Wisconsin at Madison.
Quoted: Dr. Mary Schroth, a pediatric pulmonologist at the University of Wisconsin Children’s Hospital who treats SMA patients
Quoted: Deborah Mitchell, a marketing expert at the University of Wisconsin
MADISON, Wis. — As the Badgers take on Bowling Green Saturday to kick off the football season, Bucky is also gearing up for the big game.Or, more specifically, the energetic students who portray the beloved University of Wisconsin-Madison mascot are looking forward to starting a new year and pepping up the fans.
MILWAUKEE – Jennifer Delahanty said it seemed normal to her as she grew up in Eau Claire, Wis., to hear sayings such as, “Do you want to come with?” and “Come here once.”
“You’re not aware the way you talk is different,” said the University of Wisconsin-Madison graduate student in German social linguistics. “But when I came to Madison and had contact with students from other parts of the country, I realized that it was.”
OSHKOSH ââ?¬â? A controversial UW-Madison lecturer who thinks the U.S. government was behind the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks will appear at the University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh in late October.
Quoted: John Coleman, a political science professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Dylan Avery has a theory that he says casts doubts on Mark Bingham’s actions on Sept. 11, 2001.
The real center of Ghost Hunters is not, as its subtitle suggests, William James, the American pioneer in psychology and researcher in the paranormal, but Leonora Piper, a Boston housewife and mother and paranormal phenomenon.
A 19-year-old University of Wisconsin-Madison student injured in a fall at a party in the 1300 block of Randall Court early Friday remained in critical condition late Friday, the Madison Police Department said.The man was with several friends at a party and had been drinking much of the night Thursday, police said.
Saturday’s game in Cleveland marked the first road trip of the season for die-hard Badger fans. The NBC 15 sports team had no problem finding folks that made the trip from Stoughton, Janesville and Madison.A sea of red lined in the stadium parking lot today.
There are a lot of things on the minds of UW students this weekend.
“Getting all your books together, getting used to all your new roommates,” said Josh Schleicher, a student who lives in an off-campus house.
A new study shows wages in Wisconsin are up and unemployment is down. It�s good news for working families, but the figures from the Center On Wisconsin Strategy shows storm clouds on the economic horizon.
Every two years the Center on Wisconsin Strategy or ââ?¬Å?COWS,ââ?¬Â looks at the median hourly wage for Wisconsin workers. This year, the state wage figure is up to $14.62 an hour. That means half the employed population earns more than that and half earns less.
Madison, Wis. – The WiCell Research Institute, the non-profit host of the National Stem Cell Bank controlling all 21 federally funded stem cell lines in the U.S., has selected Beth Donley as its new executive director.
While Madison’s plan for Halloween identifies the reduction in dangerous levels of intoxication as a goal for 2006, noticeably absent are any specific strategies. There were 468 arrests last year, including 206 for underage possession of alcohol. Detox was filled to capacity, with hospitals admitting the overflow. Police officers were taunted, had objects thrown at them and police horses were slapped.
USA TODAY’s special report on the toll from college fires outlined a serious safety issue that parents, college students and local governments face. Passing the blame will not resolve this issue.
We’ll return Tuesday.
By Jim Polzin
University of Wisconsin football coach Bret Bielema made a strong statement to his team in May when he suspended Jamal Cooper for one game because the defensive end wasn’t fulfilling his academic responsibilities.
For Elizabeth Waters Hall resident Rachel Netols, there was a difference in the air compared to last year. The hall had a few new residents.”It’s weird to smell them,” said Netols, a University of Wisconsin-Madison sophomore. “They smell like boys.”
Kevin Barrett doesn’t mind spewing his conspiracy theories so everyone can hear them. But the media can forget about getting a videotape of the University of Wisconsin-Madison instructor teaching his wild-eyed ideas.
According to UW-Madison officials, reporters are being allowed to attend Barrett’s first classnext week. But TV reporters are barred from bringing along any cameras. Print reporters are being told to leave photographers at the door, as well.
Philadelphia – The California biotech company that grabbed headlines last week for sparing human embryos while creating precious stem cells in fact destroyed all 16 embryos used in the experiments.
Wisconsin students don’t know it, but they have become eligible for thousands of dollars in tuition breaks at dozens of Midwestern colleges and universities.
Madison City Council members representing the campus area want to delay a vote on the most controversial pieces of the mayor’s proposed plan to manage Halloween.
As you step in the door of a retail store ââ?¬â? whether it sells Gucci handbags, jeans for teens or hardware ââ?¬â? you’re being lured to shop and spend in ways so subtle you probably don’t know what’s happening to you.Or your wallet. Retailers know how you’ll approach a store, where you’ll hesitate, how to affect your mood, how to pique your desires, how to play to your aspirations. Everything in a store, from lighting to floor color to music to how goods are displayed, is meant in some way to get you to not just shop, but spend.
Quoted: Deborah Mitchell, lecturer, School of Business
A little-known federal program created days after Sept. 11, 2001, examined financial aid records of college students targeted by the FBI in terrorism investigations, but it’s unclear whether it netted any terrorists, according to U.S. Education Department documents.
MADISON, Wis., Aug. 31, 2006 ââ?¬â? The price of freedom has never been lost on Justin Hager.
His father served in Vietnam, and his grandfather spent time in a concentration camp during World War II.
Quoted: Aimee Dechter, an assistant professor of sociology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Drinking in the dorms will be a tougher task this year at the University of Minnesota — even if you’re legal.
MADISON, Wis. — As part of the We The People/Wisconsin series, WISC-TV looks at one of the challenges facing both 2006 gubernatorial candidates — how to keep recent Wisconsin graduates from leaving the state to work elsewhere.
MADISON, Wis. — Madison police are making public two pieces of evidence that they believe was involved in a violent attack on a woman in her Langdon Street apartment building last week.
From the required reading to the gotta-have gear, the transition to college seems to require a lot of credit card transactions.
“I don’t think it’s lavish with what we’re getting for her, it’s what every kid moves in with,” says parent Marie Ganser.
The average UW student graduates with about $19,000 of debt from student loans.
Tack on credit card debt and the average student is graduating more than $20,000 in the hole.
Susan Fischer is the director of Student Financial Services on campus
The U.S. Education Department has given the Federal Bureau of Investigation information on hundreds of students who applied for financial aid over the past five years as part of the federal government’s antiterrorism investigations following the attacks of September 11, 2001.
MADISON, Wis. — As the University of Wisconsin-Madison kicks off a new school year amid a spike in recent downtown violence, local authorities are teaming up with school officials to keep the campus safe.
The dorms are filling with new students, and the university is wasting no time spreading the word about downtown violence.
Jose Delgado, a house fellow in Witte Hall, has been talking with students about campus safety since their first day.
The man who savagely attacked a UW-Madison student in her Langdon St. apartment building Aug. 23, left behind a trail.
Police say blue eyeglasses were worn by the man who slipped through a propped-open door and pummeled a 20 year old resident, as she returned home early in the morning.
USA TODAY’s annual survey of tuition and fees at 75 public flagship universities in 50 states looks at figures for first-year, full-time freshmen and includes all mandatory and major-specific fees assessed for students in basic Arts and Sciences programs. Room and board, books and other costs are not included.
A typical freshman headed for a public flagship university in his or her home state this fall will pay about $5,838 in tuition and fees, suggests USA TODAY’s annual survey of 75 top schools in 50 states. The median increase among schools studied was 6.4%.
If you have been waiting for an opportunity to purchase hard-to-get season tickets to University of Wisconsin men’s basketball games, your time has arrived.
On Tuesday morning at Camp Randall, about 350 college students were trying to play “On Wisconsin” while high-stepping it across the football field when UW Band director Mike Leckrone blew his whistle.
Vermont, Burlington 72.7%
Delaware, Newark 66.2%
North Dakota, Grand Forks 54.2%
New Hampshire, Durham 50.5%
West Virginia, Morgantown 50.0%
Rhode Island, Kingston 49.9%
Mississippi, Oxford 47.4%
Iowa, Iowa City 42.3%
Colorado, Boulder 41.4%
Auburn (Ala.) 39.5%
Illinois State, Normal 0.9%
Buffalo (SUNY) 5.0%
Texas, Austin 5.5%
Texas A&M, College Station 5.7%
UCLA 7.2%
North Carolina State, Raleigh 9.7%
Ohio, Athens 9.8%
SUNY (Stony Brook) 10.0%
Illinois, Urbana-Champaign 11.3%
Michigan State, East Lansing 12.1%
A propped-open door at a Langdon Street apartment last week helped a man reach a young woman and repeatedly punch her. The late-night attack once again illustrates an obvious point -Ã? locks don’t work if tenants don’t use them.
Quoted: R. Alta Charo, a bioethicist at the University of Wisconsin at Madison.
Here we are, mere hours from the start of a new college football season, and not a single hand-delivered manila envelope or bubble-wrapped FedEx package has shown up in my mailbox.
Three openly gay men who said they sincerely want to serve their country tried to enlist at a Madison military recruitment center Wednesday, expecting to be turned away.
Madison, Wis. – The recent decision by a young researcher to leave the University of Wisconsin-Madison has exposed some of the financial consequences of the same-sex union debate in Wisconsin.
Madison, Wis. – Enterprising candidates can score easy points with state voters this fall by reminding them that the University of Wisconsin hires conspiracy theorists as lecturers, pays accused administrators to do nothing, and squanders millions of dollars on computer systems that don’t work.
A national campaign came to Madison on Wednesday, hoping to repeal the military’s policy of not allowing openly gay homosexuals to serve.
