Author: jplucas

UW’s Student Services Financial Committee debated Thursday night whether to eliminate the SafeWalk program. Tough budget times could spell its end.

“I believe it’s too expensive for this campus,” says Tim Schulz, a member of SSFC.

“For them to cut the funding completely is ridiculous. It’s a used service on campus,” says SafeWalker, Danielle Koal.

An NBC 15 investigation uncovers possible problems with an attorney involved in the federal antitrust case brought against Madison area bars.

As rescue workers continue digging through the rubble in Pakistan, some in Madison are responding to the call for humanitarian aid.

Pakistani native and UW-Madison graduate student Waheed Bajwa is making a plea to the community to help earthquake victims, the same way they’ve helped victims of other disasters.

Bajwa is from an area near the quake’s epicenter, and says one of his friends lost more than a dozen family members. But the people who survived the earthquake now face an uncertain future.

There’s a battle brewing on the UW campus…and it’s pitting the safety conscious against the number crunchers.

As a federal antitrust lawsuit against Madison area bar owners moves forward, some defendants are pointing their fingers at a UW law professor.

While bar owners face allegations they overcharged patrons by fixing prices, they’re putting some of the blame back on what they’re calling the root of the problem: UW Law Professor Peter Carstensen.

“I was 18 years old, I was a naÃ?¯ve freshman on the University of Wisconsin campus. I was on the edge of the crowd as these events unfolded.”

“These events” were the famous Dow Vietnam War protests on the UW campus in October of 1967, the first college protests to turn violent.

Madison – Thirty-eight years later, the memories are still vivid, still powerful, still raw in places.

Paul Soglin remembers marching on the University of Wisconsin campus in Madison.

Clark Welch remembers marching into a Viet Cong ambush.

The use of lights, blocked streets and increased arrests will characterize this year’s Halloween celebration, according to city officials who met Thursday at a Halloween forum sponsored by ASM.

What started as a quirky race on the lake turned into a 50-degree bath as a pier gave way without warning.

Everyone got out without injury. Sixteen people were drenched at least up to the waist. “People went in up to their heads, over their heads,” said Rick Green, one of the unlucky spectators who fell into Lake Mendota.

MADISON, Wis. — Binge drinkers will get a little extra help this year if they need a trip to detox — from their parents.

“For us it’s really interrupting some dangerous behavior,” said interim Dean of Students Lori Berquam.

In the past, the UW didn’t have a concrete policy about what to do if a student was caught drinking or with other drugs.

An innovative effort to prevent domestic violence is under way in Dane County with efforts to help young men examine media messages and their own thinking.
Called the Delta Project, the effort has established MENS clubs for teenagers from three Madison high schools and for fraternity members at UW- Madison. The name stands for Men Encouraging Nonviolent Strength.

Like many female UW- Madison students, Dite Bray and her friends walk past the fraternity houses on Langdon Street wondering if the men inside will notice them.
Unlike most of the other students, it’s not because they’re looking for dates.