The Wisconsin Legislature failed to pass the 2007-09 state budget Monday after spending eight hours in a special session at the Capitol.
State budget remains behind
Badger Herald
Author: Kelly Tyrrell
Obama calls on students to â??fire upâ??
Badger Herald
2008 Democratic presidential hopeful Barack Obama encouraged a crowd of 4,000 Madison students and community members to get â??fired upâ? for the future of American politics Monday.
Obama reaches out to UW youth
Badger Herald
Democratic presidential hopeful Barack Obama visited Madison on Monday, calling himself the 2008 candidate who can reach out to people who are looking for a fresh, inspirational leader.
Deli robber charged in court
Daily Cardinal
The man who allegedly robbed Fraboniâ??s Deli, 822 Regent St., and put southern parts of UW-Madisonâ??s campus on lockdown Sept. 28 was charged Friday with armed robbery.
Revised reciprocity agreement approved
Daily Cardinal
The University of Minnesota Board of Regents unanimously approved a revised tuition reciprocity deal between Wisconsin and Minnesota Friday that will continue to allow students to attend public universities in the neighboring state without paying nonresident tuition.
UW faculty contribute to Goreâ??s, UNâ??s Peace Prize
Daily Cardinal
Two UW-Madison faculty members made considerable efforts in the United Nationsâ?? Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, which was awarded the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize Friday jointly with former Vice President Al Gore.
School of Business ranks 33 in social, environmental initiatives
Badger Herald
The University of Wisconsin School of Businessâ?? MBA program was ranked No. 33 in the world last week for its social and environmental issues initiatives.
Minnesota regents approve reciprocity agreement
Badger Herald
A new reciprocity agreement between Minnesota and Wisconsin was finalized at the University of Minnesota Board of Regents meeting Friday.
Doyle to hold special budget negotiation meeting today
Badger Herald
The Wisconsin Legislature will convene in a special session today in an attempt to pass the 2007-09 Wisconsin state budget.
Fraboniâ??s robber receives charges
Badger Herald
A man accused of robbing a Regent Street store and causing several University of Wisconsin buildings to lock down late in September was charged with armed robbery Friday.
Talking education with Nass
Badger Herald
State Rep. Stephen Nass, R-Whitewater, has long been critical of the University of Wisconsin System and the Board of Regents.
Obama to visit Madison today
Badger Herald
Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., will be speaking to University of Wisconsin students and Madison residents Monday as part of his â??Countdown to Changeâ? tour.
Forum examines history of state funding for higher education
Daily Cardinal
UW-Madisonâ??s participation in gaining state funding for itself and the UW System was debated Wednesday at a higher education forum at Grainger Hall.
Assembly to take up budget vote, 3-5 GOP votes needed
Daily Cardinal
The Republican-controlled state Assembly agreed to hold a Monday vote on Gov. Jim Doyleâ??s proposed compromise budget bill, with the outcome of the budget crisis likely to be decided by roughly four votes.
UW Regents, System presidents plea for full funding in state budget
Daily Cardinal
The president of the UW System and the president of the UW Board of Regents said a $25 million cut would drastically affect all 160,000 UW-Madison students, in response to Gov. Jim Doyleâ??s most recent budget proposal.
Homecoming campaign ramps up
Badger Herald
Festivities for the 2008 University of Wisconsin Homecoming Week are well underway.
Network seeks young anchors
Badger Herald
The Big Ten Network is looking for University of Wisconsin students to host a new â??magazine-style show,â? the network announced Thursday.
System fears cuts still deep
Badger Herald
Two prominent University of Wisconsin System officials issued a statement Thursday analyzing Gov. Doyleâ??s proposed budget.
Board of regents does best it can with budget
Daily Cardinal
As more and more consequences of the budget impasse emerge, it is obvious that the situation is becoming dire, even for students. Oct. 4, the UW System Board of Regents had to make a tough call: after evaluating many alternatives, if the budget is not passed by spring semester, a not-yet-determined tax will be added to the 5.5 percent increase in tuition.
uw should not pay for low budget
Daily Cardinal
In a Sept. 28 press release, Gov. Doyle reported that if there is no new state budget, students might face an additional $800 tuition surcharge next semester to cover the $96 million UW Systems needs to continue operating. Though this is only one option UW System could take to cover the shortage, it proves a point:Students will pay if the state Legislature wonâ??t. And if the $800 does not come from studentsâ?? checking accounts, it will come from the classroom.
Smithsonian names UW historian a top â??innovatorâ??
Daily Cardinal
A UW-Madison historian, who spoke Wednesday night about his recent book â??Henry Kissinger and the American Centuryâ? at the Wisconsin Veterans Museum, was named a young innovator in a special edition of Smithsonian magazine earlier this month.
Police chief outlines UW campusesâ?? security plan
Daily Cardinal
University of Wisconsin Police Chief Susan Riseling detailed the system-wide security review team, commissioned to prevent a Virginia Tech-like incident from occurring at UW, at a roundtable presentation at Memorial Union Wednesday.
Communication issues at root of mold problem
Daily Cardinal
University health officials told Ingraham Hall employees Wednesday that the mold spores present in the building since mid-September will be controlled shortly and communication issues are actively being resolved.
Republicans overreact to UW e-mail
Badger Herald
Gov. Jim Doyle spoke about the long-overdue budget before a press conference on the steps of the Memorial Union Tuesday morning. To his left stood four university students whose lack of financial aid stemmed from the unfinished budget, and to his right stood half-a-dozen College Republicans, quietly protesting.
Riseling confesses UWâ??s need for better planning
Badger Herald
University of Wisconsin Police Chief Susan Riseling said Wednesday if the crisis on the campus of Virginia Tech occurred in Madison last year, UW â??wouldnâ??t have done so well.â?
Doyle solution draws more partisan contention
Badger Herald
A new version of the 2007-09 Wisconsin state budget introduced by Democratic Gov. Jim Doyle has been met with mixed reactions from state legislators.
University addresses mold issues
Badger Herald
University of Wisconsin health officials started to address a mold outbreak Wednesday affecting several UW departments located in Ingraham Hall.
Down and dirty on campus sanitation
Badger Herald
Shortly after eating a sandwich wrap and drinking a bottle of milk, Nick Deering sat in a state of disgust at Einsteinâ??s Cafeteria in Union South.
Students must speak out
Daily Cardinal
Summary: Students must assert their independence from the partisan figureheads, network with one another and act as diplomats on behalf of the thousands of students reliant on state funding.
Former UW prof. awarded Nobel Prize
Daily Cardinal
The Nobel Assembly at Karolinska Institutet named former UW-Madison professor of genetics, Oliver Smithies, a co-recipient of the 2007 Nobel Prize in Medicine Monday.
Smithies, along with Mario R. Capecchi of the University of Utah and Martin J. Evans of the United Kingdom, received the Nobel Prize â??for their discoveries of principles for introducing specific gene modifications in mice by the use of embryonic stem cells,â? according to a statement from the Nobel Assembly.
Smithies was a professor at UW-Madison from 1960-1988, when he left for the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill where he is currently the Excellence Professor of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine.
GOP says UW-Doyle e-mail illegal
Daily Cardinal
The Wisconsin College Republicans filed a formal complaint against the UW-Madison Monday, claiming the university violated student privacy rights with an e-mail about a Gov. Jim Doyle press event.
Members of the WCR claim the university violated the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act of 1974 in that studentsâ?? personal information was used to â??recruit students for a political rally,â? according to the formal complaint.
The e-mail was sent to 33 UW-Madison students still awaiting financial aid due to the budget impasse.
Designers reveal plans for building
Badger Herald
Members of the Wisconsin Institutes for Discovery discussed design plans Monday to add a new University of Wisconsin research building that would host various projects and programs to enhance human health.
The project will cost approximately $150 million, split evenly among the state of Wisconsin, the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation, and John and Tashia Morgridge, according to Carl Gulbrandsen, chair of the Wisconsin Institutes for Discovery.
UW group offers alternative to Columbus
Badger Herald
University of Wisconsin students gathered on Library Mall Monday to celebrate Indigenous Peopleâ??s Day in efforts to spread awareness and appreciation of Native Indian culture.
Initiated by Wunk Sheek, a UW American Indian student organization, the event consisted of native dance, music and speeches given by the groupâ??s leaders in opposition to Columbus Day.
Anti-war group talks with Wiley
Badger Herald
University of Wisconsin Chancellor John Wiley and members of the Campus Antiwar Network discussed Monday the possibility of having a campuswide referendum to decide whether Halliburton should be included in future graduate recruiting fairs.
The meeting with the chancellor comes in light of a recent demonstration in which nearly 200 students protested the inclusion of Halliburton in a College of Engineering recruiting fair last month, accusing the company of making billions of dollars off the Iraq war.
E-mail sparks privacy concern
Badger Herald
The Wisconsin College Republicans filed an official complaint Monday against the University of Wisconsin-Madison, claiming the university violated federal student privacy laws.
The allegations stem from an e-mail UW-Madison sent to an undisclosed number of students who previously received Wisconsin Higher Education Grants, but were not awarded them this year due to the undecided state budget. The message told students Gov. Jim Doyle would hold a press conference today at Memorial Union to address UW System financial aid concerns and the need for a state budget.
WILL FORCING THE ISSUE MATTER?
WISC-TV 3
With all due respect to the lawmakers now proposing various incentives to force their colleagues to do their jobs and pass a state budget in respectable amount of time we have to wonder if it will really matter. We applaud the intentions of State Representatives Joe Parisi, Jennifer Shilling, Mark Pocan, Dean Kaufert, Louis Molepski and others who are clearly feeling the heat from constituents and citizen throughout Wisconsin.
Washburn Observatory to close for renovations at end of month
Daily Cardinal
Washburn Observatory, which has hosted public star-gazings since its opening in the 1880s, announced Thursday it will close for renovations until summer 2009.
University, Adidas continue effort to rehire mistreated workers
Daily Cardinal
UW-Madison officials stressed changes have been implemented at Adidasâ?? factories to ensure better treatment of workers Thursday, despite the Student Labor Action Coalitionâ??s protest Wednesday of the universityâ??s athletic apparel contract with the company.
UWPD tapes students at protests, football games
Daily Cardinal
When the Badgers meet Northern Illinois in the next home football game Oct. 20, UW-Madison students might be surprised to know they may be on videotape.
Regents pass student â??taxâ?? alternative due to continued budget lapse
Daily Cardinal
The UW System Board of Regents unanimously passed a resolution Thursday that may â??taxâ? all UW students come next semester if the 2007-â??09 biennial budget is not passed by the Conference Committee soon.
Get your Geek.Kon with weekend fest
Badger Herald
Attention Madison geeks: start practicing your Elvish, polishing your best works of fan fiction and putting the finishing touches on your costumes, because Geek.Kon is coming to campus this weekend.
City prepares for freaky celebration
Badger Herald
With ticket sales for this weekâ??s Freakfest Halloween celebration beginning this morning, the eventâ??s organizers continue to make preparations.
Struggling with the uncontrollable
Badger Herald
University of Wisconsin students can be in wheelchairs, be blind or be deaf.
But when a student cannot attend class because she is repeatedly hospitalized due to a genetic mutation, one student believes the line between what qualifies someone as a UW student begins to blur.
Observatory temporarily closing
Badger Herald
The University of Wisconsinâ??s Washburn Observatory will close its doors late October due to a renovation project budgeted at $2.5 million.
Whey to go, Badger athletes!
Daily Cardinal
The University of Wisconsin-Madison, Sports Illustratedâ??s declared â??Best College Sports Town in America,â? now has another thing to add to its bragging rightsâ??its very own sports drink.
The limited profits of professors
Daily Cardinal
Igal Hendel, a former UW-Madison economics professor, resigned two years ago along with several other professors due to the declining salaries and resources of the university.
Budget stalemate infringes on uw
Daily Cardinal
Wisconsin has now entered its fourth month without a budget for 2008, leaving the state with last yearâ??s provisions and a guarantee for fiscal failure before next summer. Students can be forgiven for largely ignoring the political spitting match unfolding between Democrats and Republicans at the Capitol since July, but now the budget â??impasseâ? threatens to directly affect UW-Madison, and it is time to take note.
MPD offers safety tips, reveals recent crime trends
Daily Cardinal
The Madison Police Department briefed UW students and residents in a meeting at Memorial Union Wednesday about crime and safety issues in the downtown area.
Business leaders urge Assembly to fund UW
Daily Cardinal
The state Assembly received a petition from 32 Wisconsin business leaders early Wednesday arguing for increased support and funding from the Assembly for the UW System in budget negotiations.
SLAC delivers Wiley ‘face-to-face’ demands
Daily Cardinal
The Student Labor Action Coalition delivered â??face-to-faceâ? demands Wednesday to Chancellor John Wiley, insisting he cut UW-Madisonâ??s athletic apparel contract with Adidas.
Police encourage students to lock up
Badger Herald
The Madison Police Department held a meeting Wednesday evening at Memorial Union to report crime statistics and discuss area safety with downtown residents.
Regents meet with questions unanswered
Badger Herald
With the Wisconsin state budget still unsettled, the University of Wisconsin System Board of Regents will meet today and Friday to talk about what steps to take next.
Group leads Adidas protest
Badger Herald
Dozens of University of Wisconsin students rallied Wednesday to demand the cancellation of a UW athletic apparel contract with Adidas.
Budget stalemate infringes on uw
Daily Cardinal
Wisconsin has now entered its fourth month without a budget for 2008, leaving the state with last yearâ??s provisions and a guarantee for fiscal failure before next summer. Students can be forgiven for largely ignoring the political spitting match unfolding between Democrats and Republicans at the Capitol since July, but now the budget â??impasseâ? threatens to directly affect UW-Madison, and it is time to take note.
PACE highlights concern over Freakfest
Daily Cardinal
Members of UW-Madisonâ??s PACE Coalition discussed the cityâ??s new Alcohol License Density Plan Tuesday as well as strategies for upcoming Halloween events.
Two fraternities endure process of suspensions
Daily Cardinal
Two UW-Madison chapter fraternities will appeal to the Interfraternity Council after an alleged hazing last spring and a violation of probation earlier this semester that led to expulsion from the University.
UW-affliated entrepreneurs mentor, share insider marketing strategies
Daily Cardinal
Four entrepreneurs with connections to UW-Madison spoke to students about the three Ms of entrepreneurshipâ??money, marketing and mentorshipâ??Tuesday night at Memorial Union.
Holistic admissions necessary for minority progress
Badger Herald
I donâ??t mean to shock anyone, but Wisconsin is a pretty white state. Itâ??s telling that the University of Wisconsin, which itself is nearly 90 percent white, seemed like an oasis of diversity when I first moved here from my Green Bay suburb.
Police to hold safety meeting for students
Badger Herald
University of Wisconsin students will have the opportunity to voice their safety concerns to the Madison Police Department tonight at a downtown community safety meeting.
Local coalition prepares for Freakfest
Badger Herald
Members of a local coalition met Tuesday to discuss the cityâ??s plans for Halloween and possible new alcohol policies for the future.