Author: jplucas

Students pushed the books aside and joined the ranks of athletes as they hit the streets of Madison Sunday for the 2004 Ironman Wisconsin.

A trip scheduled for October to Myanmar (formerly known as Burma), hosted by the Wisconsin Alumni Association, has undergone changes because of controversy surrounding the nation�s human-rights abuses.

A majority of colleges and universities are not in strict compliance with a federal law that requires them to make a “good-faith effort” to provide students with voter-registration materials, according to a national survey by The Chronicle and the Institute of Politics at Harvard University. (Subscription required.)

New rules in University of Wisconsin housing policies have changed the way students decorate their rooms, pushing shelves loaded with empty liquor bottles and beer cans into the closet.

The ongoing project for University of Wisconsin officials and students to improve safety on campus recently took a step forward.

A new electronically monitored door-access system and door security cameras were added to Sellery, Witte, Ogg and Chadbourne residence halls at the end of the spring semester.

Improving diversity on campus has been an ongoing priority for the University of Wisconsin for many years. Since their inception, initiatives to increase the number of minority students and faculty have been expanding.

For most universities, a top ranking from The Princeton Review is good news — unless that score is for partying. From hitting the bars to hitting the books, we look at how some schools are trying to shed the image of the party school.

Interviewed: Susan Crowley, director of prevention services at UW-Madison. (Audio.)

With election day less than two months away, the UW-Madison branch of the New Voters Project announced they have already registered 3,218 young voters, and said they hope to register a total of 10,000 by November 2.

While city and campus officials have long worried about the run-down balconies found on many campus-area houses, University of Wisconsin students got a terrible reminder last week of just how dangerous these favorite party hangouts can be.

The City Council voted Tuesday to revoke a voluntary drink special restriction that sparked controversy and even an antitrust lawsuit in recent months.

While on-campus speakers on Library Mall may capture the attention of a handful of people at a time, one UW-Madison student is making his voice heard throughout the entire Madison-area community.

Casey Hoff, a senior majoring in marketing, is the host of “New Ground,” a daily radio show on Madison’s AM 1670, WTDY radio.

A student housing building spree and caps on student enrollment have driven downtown vacancies up, a circumstance that tenants may be able to leverage to their advantage.

“I’m seeing a lot more ‘for rent’ signs than I’ve ever seen for this time of year,” said David Keller, a principal owner of the Keller Real Estate Group.