Has law school lost its appeal?
Last year, for the first time since the 1997-98 admission cycle, the number of applicants to law school declined, by 4.6 percent, and so far this year, the number has declined by 9.5 percent.
Engineering students at UW Madison are making some of their best ideas come to life.
On Thursday, they presented their inventions to the public with the hope that their big ideas will help them win prizes and recognition. (Video.)
While many people watching the Grammy’s were rooting for Mariah, Kayne, or Bono.
A UW-Madison student was pulling for Bebo.
Derek Kwan was an associate producer on the album “Bebo De Cuba,”which won the Grammy Wednesday night for “Best Traditional Tropical Latin Album.”
Wisconsin State Rep. Terese Berceau became concerned when she started seeing polls that showed more Americans wanted ââ?¬Å?alternative viewpoints to evolution,ââ?¬Â primarily intelligent design, she said, taught in public schools. ââ?¬Å?Evolution is not a viewpoint,ââ?¬Â Bereceau added. And she wants the Wisconsin Legislature to agree.
The legislation is the first of its kind in the country, and University of Wisconsin at Madison faculty members, five of whom Berceau consulted, applauded the bill as strong support for teachers who have been caught in the middle of the controversy. ââ?¬Å?I think it makes Wisconsin look good the same way [embracing alternative theories to evolution] made Kansas look silly,ââ?¬Â said Alan Attie, a biochemistry professor at Wisconsin and one of the faculty members Berceau consulted.
Bikinis, flip-flops and wet T-shirts remain the attire of choice for tens of thousands of college spring breakers, whose annual migrations to such hot spots as Panama City, Fla., South Padre Island, Texas, and Acapulco, Mexico, kick off later this month and run through early April. But many of this year’s rites of spring will feature another wardrobe component: hard hats.
It looks as if UW Madison students are taking their financial obligations seriously. (Audio.)
If there are no open spots on the University of Wisconsin football staff, coach Bret Bielema had better create one ââ?¬â? for a baby sitter.
Nobody should be naive about big-time college sports: the teams aren’t made up of angels and boy scouts.
But what the Wisconsin program has gone through lately borders on ridiculous. Eight players have been arrested in the last 42 days.
GREEN BAY, Wis. ââ?¬â? Sure, the members of the Ohio State and Wisconsin hockey teams will remember the Frozen Tundra Classic no matter what the weather conditions are like. But a big reason they will remember it will be because of the weather conditions and atmosphere.
Quoted: Rusty Bishop, director of the University of Wisconsin�s Center for Dairy Research.
Quoted: Barbara Ingham, a food science professor at the University of Wisconsin in Madison, said consumers should not worry about the information they receive on most food labels.
Quoted: Dr. David Bernhardt, a member of AAP and a professor of pediatrics and orthopedics at University of Wisconsin-Madison.
There has been much talk recently about giving Waukesha County residents the opportunity to earn four-year degrees at the University of Wisconsin-Waukesha.
But on Tuesday night, at a UW-Waukesha event scheduled to talk about different pathways to UW-Madison, many said they found the idea of earning a four-year degree without ever leaving home unappealing.
At the event, UW-Madison Chancellor John Wiley spoke about the UW-Madison Connections program.
MADISON, Wis. – University of Wisconsin System professors convicted of felonies could be immediately suspended without pay under proposed rules meant to quickly remove criminals from the system’s payroll.
The proposed rules also would speed up the system’s process for dismissing professors convicted of felonies with a goal of concluding in 60 days. The process currently can drag on for months.
(Article also appears in 2/9/06 Capital Times)
Gambling experts say poker for entertainment is fine, but when money gets involved or the gambling moves online, that’s when problems can occur.
Andrew Jensen got into the poker craze four years ago in high school.
“It started four years ago getting more into it with friends, then we started weekend games on Friday and Saturday nights,” said Jensen. Jensen is now a UW sophomore.
A couple dozen medical students lobby lawmakers at the capitol to make healthcare a priority in Wisconsin. Diane Reis (Rice), first year medical student at the UW School of Medicine and Public Health, says healthcare reform is important for the health of the uninsured and for the state as a whole. (Audio.)
A chorus of scientists, politicians and business leaders has long sounded this lament: The USA is about to be deposed as the world’s leader in science and technology. And last week President Bush joined the choir, calling in his State of the Union address for a $136 billion boost in science education and research over the next 10 years.
Six publishers filed a lawsuit Wednesday in federal court against the owner of a copy shop near the University of Florida in Gainesville who they say is photocopying and selling copyrighted material without paying royalties or getting permission. It’s the latest in a series of lawsuits in which publishers are cracking down on copyright infringements involving student ââ?¬Å?coursepacks,ââ?¬Â a multimillion-dollar industry in which journal articles, case studies or other readings for a college course are compiled and photocopied for use in class.
MADISON, Wis. ââ?¬â? Two Democratic lawmakers introduced a plan Tuesday that would ban public schools from teaching intelligent design as science, saying “pseudo-science” should have no place in the classroom.
The proposal is the first of its kind in the country, according to the National Conference of State Legislatures, and comes as a debate over how to teach the origins of human life rages in local school districts.
Thirty-one college presidents and chancellors, including John Wiley, are among the 140 business, political, and educational leaders who have endorsed an advertisement appearing in today’s issues of The Washington Post and The Wall Street Journal that urges readers to “help keep America the driving force in innovation.”
Tests show a college student who claimed he escaped a freezing Mississippi River on Jan. 8 had only alcohol in his system that night, a family spokesman said.
Cullen Fortney, 21, a University of Wisconsin-Madison student from Viroqua, Wis., who was in La Crosse with friends that night, told police he could not remember what happened after he left a downtown bar about 1:45 a.m.
Quoted: Byron Shafer, a political scientist at the University of Wisconsin.
Quoted: Al Gunther, UW media professor.
Madison: The line up of Badger football players in trouble with the law keeps growing, but the athletic department is trying to stress the positives.
The latest incident involved 4 freshmen on the football team.
UW Police say just after 2 in the morning on January 26th P.J Hill, Jonathan Casillas, Elijah Hodge and Javery McFadden were involved in an altercation outside the Sellery Residence Hall.
New York, with nearly 23%, leads the nation in percentage of 2005 high school seniors passing an AP exam. Maryland, North Carolina, Washington, Connecticut, Delaware and Florida showed the most improvement since 2000.
In Madison, a pit bull owned by former UW linebacker Dontez Sanders is quarantined at his apartment, after the dog attacked and killed a dachshund puppy.
In Scottsville, Ohio, two pit bulls owned by Sanders’ brother, former Ohio State tight end Darnell Sanders, are housed at a private kennel as a judge decides whether the animals should be destroyed after being involved in a fatal attack on an 82 year old man.
The percentage of students who took and passed Advanced Placement courses, which are widely regarded as a gold standard for high school rigor, has increased in every state and the District of Columbia since 2000, a report says. Even so, racial gaps remained.
The pit bull that attacked the puppy is in quarantine tonight. Dogs are only put into quarantine if a person is injured. According to police the woman watching the dog and the puppy’s owner suffered minor injuries. So, it’s quarantined to make sure it doesn’t have rabies. The owner of the pit bull is trying to save his dog from being put to sleep.
Q: During games at the Kohl Center, there are intermittent flashes of light on the playing floor that come from overhead. What are they? Can they be eliminated? These flashes are extremely annoying for the fans.
PLATTEVILLE – After sitting impatiently at a lunch counter and getting no service, a white man finally called to the waitress.
Immediately, he was verbally attacked by a group of black people screaming racial slurs and yelling that he and his friends were in a “colored only” section. They spilled a drink on the white man’s head and wrestled him to the ground.
When the second semester began, the University of Wisconsin men’s basketball team had a 14-2 record and was solidly in the Top 10 of the Ratings Percentage Index.
Since then, the Badgers – who play Indiana tonight at the Kohl Center – are 1-5 and have dropped to 25th in the RPI, a measure of strength of schedule and performance against that schedule that the NCAA uses to set its tournament field.
Doug Wubben’s part-time job comes with some unusual duties: undergoing frequent genital and prostate exams.
It’s not that the 35-year-old organic vegetable grower from Madison enjoys having his private parts poked and prodded. Rather, he likes training tomorrow’s doctors to perform some of their most sensitive – and important – work.
Wubben is one of about 100 people who get paid to help students at the UW Medical School learn how to examine, interview, listen to and respect their future patients.
A University of Wisconsin-Madison professor says treating intelligent design as science in our schools could have a negative impact on the state. UW Madison biochemist Michael Cox says there are efforts across the nation to include intelligent design in school science classes, but some of those views misrepresent the theory by treating it as proven science. (Audio.)
The budget request for the 2007 fiscal year that President Bush unveiled on Monday had little good news for financially needy students, particularly those who are not high academic achievers.
Under the spending plan, the maximum Pell Grant would remain at $4,050 for the fifth year in a row. And for the second consecutive year, the president is calling on Congress to eliminate the Perkins Loan Program and require colleges to return the federal share of the money they use to make new Perkins Loans to students from low- and middle-income families.
President Bush’s budget for academic science in 2007 may inspire researchers in the physical sciences to pop Champagne corks, but many biomedical researchers will be looking for their aspirin bottles.
The debate about whether graffiti is art has gone a step further in the Art Department’s sixth- and seventh-floor landings at UW-Madison’s Mosse Humanities Building.
Quoted: UW-Madison University Housing Food Service Manager Brian Burke.
Stung by five years of tuition increases, including four double-digit hikes, University of Minnesota students have become all too familiar with the letters IOU.
Rapidly rising tuition helped trigger an unprecedented jump in student borrowing the past few years. Student loans more than doubled, from $160 million in 2000 to $330 million last year across the U’s four campuses.
The athletes who represent Wisconsin on this year’s U.S. Winter Olympics team are remarkable men and women whose dedication to achieve their dreams should inspire us all.
The Olympic team officially lists 10 competitors from Wisconsin. They include speedskaters Casey FitzRandolph of Verona, a gold medalist in 2002, and Tucker Fredricks of Janesville as well as curler Maureen Brunt, a native of Portage, and former UW-Madison hockey player Molly Engstrom of Siren. Other Olympians have Wisconsin connections, including ski jumper Clint Jones, a Monroe native, and former UW hockey players Chris Chelios and Brian Rafalski.
Quoted: Timothy Tyson is a professor of Afro-American studies at the University of Wisconsin in Madison and the author of the biography “Radio Free Dixie: Robert F. Williams and the Roots of Black Power.”
A 3-year-old dog owned by a former UW-Madison football player attacked and killed another student’s toy-sized puppy Sunday afternoon outside a campus-area apartment building, police said.
Bret Bielema officially has been on the job as head coach of the University of Wisconsin football team for less than a week and already he’s got a major public relations problem on his hands.
MADISON, Wis. — A University of Wisconsin-Madison student is considering legal action against the owner of a 3-year-old pit bull that attacked and killed her 6-month-old Dachsund puppy this weekend.
The woman said that the attack happened in the fenced courtyard at Surfside Apartments, located at 661 Mendota Court, in Madison.
The pit bull that attacked the puppy is in quarantine tonight. Dogs are only put into quarantine if a person is injured. According to police the woman watching the dog and the puppy’s owner suffered minor injuries. So, it’s quarantined to make sure it doesn’t have rabies. Monday the owner of the pit bull that is trying to save his dog from being put to sl
(EAU CLAIRE) A survey on college campuses is underway around the country to find out if students are cheating or plagiarizing. UW-Eau Claire started its survey this week. (Fourth item.)
College students are likely to pack on 15 pounds during their freshman year, right? Not quite, say Rutgers University researchers who find that the ââ?¬Å?Freshman Fifteenââ?¬Â phenomenon is exaggerated. In their sample of 67 students who were weighed in the fall and again in the spring of their freshman years, the average weight gain was only 7 pounds, the result of consuming about 112 excess calories a day. Researchers note, however, that three-quarters of the students in the study did gain weight, which could spell trouble if weight gain continues through graduation. The results of the study will be published in the Journal of American College Health this spring.
Some college students or would-be students who were denied federal financial aid for past drug convictions will regain eligibility under a measure passed last week by Congress and expected to be signed soon by President Bush. But students convicted of a drug felony or misdemeanor in college will still be disqualified from receiving federal aid for at least one year.
A UW student watched in horror Sunday as an unleashed pit bull owned by former UW Badger linebacker Dontez Sanders attacked and killed her dachshund-Maltese puppy outside her apartment.
KNOXVILLE, Tenn. ââ?¬â? Everything seemed to be going Tiffany Clay’s way. She was 18, bright, attractive and heading off to the University of Tennessee with a scholarship as a highly recruited swimmer.
We have long known that federal officials can be indifferent to the impact of government regulation on institutions of higher education. But even so, the implications of a recent decision by the Federal Communications Commission are breathtaking.
The problem stems from a relatively obscure federal statute called the Communications Assistance for Law Enforcement Act, or Calea, and a decision by the FCC to expand the coverage of this law to the Internet and to “private networks” like those run on campus.
In 1998, Thomas Zdeblick, a prominent surgeon and professor at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health, took on a second job as a consultant to one of the world’s largest makers of medical technology.
Quoted: Howard Bailey, an associate director of clinical research at the University of Wisconsin Comprehensive Cancer Center.
According to UW System data, the 13 chancellors of non-doctoral campuses all make less than $176,113, the new minimum of the proposed salary range. The new range has a midpoint of $195,681. The University of Wisconsin Board of Regents will wade into the sensitive issue of executive salaries when it meets next
MADISON ââ?¬â? Some Northeastern Wisconsin physicians are angered over a discrepancy their Madison colleagues have known for years: University of Wisconsin doctors have a $250,000 cap on pain and suffering awards for victims of medical malpractice while private physicians do not.
A group of more than 100 specialty physicians at Aurora BayCare Medical Center say UW doctors have an unfair advantage over private physicians in Wisconsin who are without similar protection since the state Supreme Court last July struck down the state’s previous cap of $445,000, ruling it unconstitutional.
MILWAUKEE – Three state legislators are calling for an audit to find out why some of the state’s computer systems are so costly and inefficient.
Sen. Carol Roessler, R-Oshkosh, said the unreliable computer systems are wasting millions of dollars of taxpayer money.
“What’s happening now is that our whole information technology system is inefficient, too costly, is subject to cost overruns, and there is no accountability,” she said. “We are looking at huge increases in dollars even before some of these programs are
Tastebuds alone do not determine what something tastes like. Researchers have demonstrated that expectation, too, plays a role.
Previous research in primates had suggested that expectation had little effect on how taste registers in the brain. Neuroscientist Jack Nitschke and his colleagues at the University of Wisconsin lined up 30 college-age volunteers to see whether the same holds true for humans.
Quoted: Dr. Frank Greer, a member of the academy’s nutrition committee and pediatrics professor at the University of Wisconsin.
Quoted: Charles Franklin, a political science professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
University of Wisconsin-Madison students and employees can learn to fix their bicycles and gain free access to tools under a newly expanded program.
Quoted: Folklorist Ruth Olson, an associate at the Center for the Study of Upper Midwest Cultures at the University of Wisconsin-Madison
Quoted: Charles Franklin, a political science professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
