The family of Jared Dion, a University of Wisconsin-La Crosse student who drowned in the Mississippi River in April, said in a legal notice that the school and the City of La Crosse contributed to his death by operating a “drunk bus” and printing tavern advertisements in the student newspaper.
Quoted: University of Wisconsin scholar Marc Galanter
MADISON — After spending nearly two years scrutinizing 13 universities nationwide, the head of the National Rural Electric Cooperative Association said it is the dedication to the cooperative business method plus academic excellence that put the University of Wisconsin-Madison out front.
Average scores on the ACT college entrance exam rose for the first time in seven years, with the high school class of 2004 improving modestly across all subjects and most ethnic groups, according to test administrators.
MADISON, Wis. — There’s a new effort under way to regulate drink specials across Madison. The head of the city’s powerful Alcohol License Review Committee told News 3 that bar owners, city and University of Wisconsin officials will brain storm at an alcohol summit next week.
Quoted: Ken Goldstein, a University of Wisconsin-Madison professor who studies campaign ads.
This chart compares numbers of high school graduates from the classes of 1998 and 2003 who took the SAT and the ACT.
The State University of New York at Albany is the number one “party school” in the nation, according to an annual survey by Princeton Review Inc., which used statistics from student questionnaires gathered from 357 institutions to rank colleges in a number of categories. (Subscription required.)
Like many people, Nancy Heiss had a romanticized view of love: the Hollywood-fed view in which people fall in love at first sight, experience unwavering passion and live happily ever after. But after taking a class on divorce culture at New York’s Binghamton University, Heiss, a recent graduate who is in a relationship, says she has more realistic expectations: ââ?¬Å?I look at relationships more critically.ââ?¬Â
Most admissions experts say the SAT and ACT are equally helpful (or harmful, in the case of some testing critics) in predicting an applicant’s success as a first-year college student. But the tests aren’t the same. Here’s a look at how the two compare. The new SAT makes its debut in March; the ACT optional writing section will first be offered in February
UW officials are downplaying a new list that claims that the university is the third-best party school in the nation.
Like any bright teenager in suburban Washington, D.C., Michelle Morris took the SAT. Her 1400 score would impress many of the nation’s most elite universities. So instead of retaking the test to try to boost her score, as about half of all SAT takers do, she tried the other college entrance exam: the ACT.
In the last two years, it has become easier for researchers throughout the UW System to get legal and other help with the to-market process.
After two years of big-time budget cuts and tuition hikes, leaders of the University of Wisconsin System are hoping for more than just kinder, gentler treatment from legislators and the governor in the next budget cycle.
Reference: A national study released last month that originated in large part from the University of Wisconsin-Madison showed that almost 60% of Americans live in TV markets where there had been no Bush or Kerry ads at all in the months after the primary season.
A childhood dream came true Friday for Milwaukee Vincent basketball standout Marcus Landry when he announced his intention to attend the University of Wisconsin next
RACINE – Brent Moss disputed the police version of his Wednesday night arrest for possession of cocaine, saying he didn’t have any cocaine and he didn’t resist arrest. The former University of Wisconsin Badger football star also said police never read him his rights, beat him unnecessarily, talked of shooting him, spat on him and called him names.
Quoted: Ian Dobson, a professor of electrical engineering at the University of Wisconsin
MADISON, Wis. – Junior University of Wisconsin cornerback Brett Bell spent a night in jail for violating his probation.
Erin Hetzel bleeds the University of Wisconsin’s red and white.
The Avon High School co-valedictorian, born in Milwaukee, dreamed of being a Badger.
Then she did the math: Wisconsin offered no scholarships and cost $13,000 more a year in tuition and fees than Indiana University, her second choice.
The underdog school won out. Hetzel, 18, will remain a Hoosier.
Quoted: Christopher Velden, an atmospheric scientist at the University of Wisconsin at Madison.
While pleasurable experiences may lift your spirits, the ones that leave you with a sense of purpose and meaningful relationships may do even more: protect the body against ill health.
When researchers from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and Princeton University interviewed a group of older women and assessed their emotional and physical well-being, or levels of optimal health, they found that the people who were purposefully engaged in life tended to have better levels of physical functioning.
When Scott Ashmann graduated 16 years ago with a bachelor�s degree in chemistry and education from the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay, he never thought he would return there years later as an assistant science education professor.
As Americans, we cherish human life. We celebrate a pregnancy and the birth of a child as one of our greatest gifts
After a decade as a foreign currency trader, Nick Cianci did not find his job fulfilling anymore. Neither did Cathey Gardner, a restaurant catering manager.
Details are still to come but, at least at first blush, the idea to lure California students to Wisconsin universities sounds horrible.
Black and Hispanic students are more likely to finish college if they attend a relatively selective institution — even if that means they are surrounded by better-prepared students — than if they attend a nonselective college, according to results of a study presented here Saturday at the annual meeting of the American Sociological Association. (Subscription required.)
Honored: Myra Marx Ferree, professor of sociology at the University of Wisconsin at Madison: the Jessie Bernard Award, which recognizes contributions to the sociology of women and gender. (Subscription required.)
Like unwelcome houseguests, little can be done to get rid of the crawfish once they’re here. But University of Wisconsin-Madison research suggests we can control crawfish populations just by helping the bluegills that eat them.
MADISON, Wis. – The University of Wisconsin’s nuclear reactor is an unassuming little model, operated (on Tuesdays and Thursdays only) by students in T-shirts and shorts. In the last few months it has been used to identify the source of pottery shards from an ancient settlement in India, to test whether heart stents work better if they have been irradiated, and to study the water and gas balance that would be present in a future generation of power reactors.
A weekend summertime party erupted in violence during the weekend when one group of drinkers swinging baseball bats and two-by-fours apparently waded into a group of more than 100 revelers.
The incident blackened several eyes, knocked one man unconscious and broke the jaw of another – all over a $5 charge for a beer cup.
It won’t be at the site he was hoping for, but hip-hop promoter Florenzo Cribbs says he’ll pursue his plans for a free concert Aug. 20 – on the Library Mall, not down State Street in Peace Park.
RACINE – Brent Moss, a former University of Wisconsin Badgers football star whose college career was cut short and NFL hopes derailed by a 1994 cocaine arrest, appeared in court Thursday on new drug charges.
It’s appalling that some Madison landlords have failed to put locks on the outside doors of their apartment buildings to keep tenants safe from confronting drunks, thieves and predators in hallways and basements. For that reason the City Council should pass an ordinance making the locks a safety requirement.
Madison – The lawyer representing University of Wisconsin junior tailback Dwayne Smith has filed two motions seeking the dismissal of a second-degree sexual assault charge against his client.
The University of Massachusetts at Amherst must stop charging a $65-per-semester fee to international students, an arbitrator has ruled. The arbitrator agreed with the university’s graduate-student union that the fee is discriminatory.
Tom Burke’s Ring is for sale on an internet auction site
As the Wisconsin badger football team begins practice with hopes of returning to Rose Bowl glory, a former Badger star is apparently peddling a piece of Rose Bowl history.
In three small Wisconsin towns where barhopping is a primary pastime, they’re fighting drunken driving in an innovative way.
“People know they aren’t supposed to drink and drive, but they do it anyway,” said Michael Rothschild, a retired University of Wisconsin-Madison business professor whose idea was to use social marketing to give drinkers “a better product.”
Jordan Loeb is a 39-year-old man with the arteries of a 62-year-old.
The Madison lawyer knows this because of a new diagnostic test for those at risk of cardiovascular disease. It’s not an exaggeration to say the test changed Loeb’s life. And, perhaps, it will turn out to have saved it, too.
The noninvasive test, pioneered here at UW-Madison, has proven a powerful tool for educating patients such as Loeb about their risk of developing heart disease or having a stroke.
Quoted: David Joranson, director of pain policy at the University of Wisconsin-Madison Medical School.
Leading U.S. pain experts have collaborated with the Drug Enforcement Administration on a set of frequently asked questions and answers designed to improve pain treatment while attacking the growing problem of prescription drug abuse.
Quoted: Philipp Simon, a plant breeder and geneticist who directs the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s vegetable breeding program at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Baby carrots have overtaken the nation like a healthful tsunami, an orange tide that is sliding into grocery carts, pooling on dinner plates and lapping into minivans full of snack-hungry kids.
Cited: Philipp Simon
Dwayne Smith would like us all to believe that his worries are few, his concentration level is high and his nerves are not the least bit frayed.
I walked away from a conversation with Smith, a junior tailback for University of Wisconsin football team, wondering how that could possibly be the case.
The British government said Wednesday that it had awarded its first license permitting scientists to conduct “therapeutic cloning” — the creation of stem cells for research from cloned, unfertilized human embryos.
A group of Midwestern higher education leaders, spurred by a University of Wisconsin System administrator, is exploring the possibility of recruiting college-age students from California to attend universities in the heartland.
Washington – Today’s teens: They don’t like the idea of a military draft, they’re stressed out about grades and they regard their parents as practically awesome.
Those were among key findings unveiled Tuesday from a national survey of American young people aged 13 to 19.
UW-Madison’s PEOPLE program is $250,000 richer after a gift from the SBC Foundation this week.
One of the biggest trash days of the year in Madison falls on a Sunday this year, but city garbage haulers probably will keep it a day of rest.
Today is the third anniversary of the Bush administration’s decision to put the brakes on potentially life saving research using human embryonic stem cells.
Jessica Rose was rushing to dinner on State Street to celebrate her 21st birthday when she spotted Carrie Haese in a light blue T-shirt with the words “Register to Vote” printed in large red letters.
Jesse Alswager could barely reach the microphones because he’s only 7.
He seems much too young to be involved in politics, let alone presidential politics.
The decision turned out to be costly for Suzy Favor Hamilton, but her coach still thinks it was the right one.
Madison police knew Audrey Seiler had lied to them and that she bought her “abduction kit” from Target before she was reported missing but still released a sketch of her supposed abductor on April 1, the day after she was found in a South Side marsh.
Highly regarded prep basketball player Marcus Landry of Milwaukee Vincent High School has told University of Wisconsin coaches he plans to play for the Badgers but wants to make the announcement official at a news conference, a source close to the program said.
UW-Madison’s signature architectural symbol is getting a $1.2 million facelift, but it’s not just cosmetic, officials said
Andrea LeClair and other UW-Madison students can tell stories of vagrants, drunks and predators invading unsecured entries and basements of their campus-area apartments.
lThe last thing I want to do is stir up trouble by mixing politics with sports, but after sorting through reams of data, I feel it’s my patriotic duty to pass this along.
If you really, really want the University of Wisconsin football team – which begins practice today at the O’Connor Center – to have a successful season, you might want to consider putting the donkey in the White House in November.
WAUSAU, Wis. – A former University of Wisconsin-Superior professor who was fired three years ago amid allegations of sexual harassment and other ethics violations won a new chance Tuesday to get his job back.
A professor of biological systems engineering at the University of Wisconsin-Madison College of Agricultural and Life Sciences has been named a Fellow of the American Society of Agricultural Engineers. Ronald Schuler was inducted during a ceremony last week at the 2004 ASAE Annual International Meeting in Ottawa, Ontario
MADISON – With a name like Platypus, itââ?¬â?¢s clear that the founders of this nanotechnology start-up possess a quirky sense of humor, to say nothing of the confidence that what they have to offer is sound enough to overcome the off-beat name.
QUoted: CEO Barbara Israel, a University of Wisconsin virologist who earned her PhD in medical microbiology.
