For many students, the significance of the daily thrust-and-parry of the political process is not a high priority. The Capitol building, despite its location at the other end of State Street, might as well be another universe. However, its relevance has never been greater.
The Dean of Students Office’s possible reorganization of student services and student development programs has raised serious concerns among the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender community at UW-Madison.
The UW-Madison Safe Arrival For Everyone taxi-service program was created to provide students with a way out of potentially dangerous situations, but some find it difficult to actually get a ride.
Many students seeking to avoid contact with UW-Madison police officers may only worry about hiding open intoxicants and loud music.
However, UW-Madison police look for much more than this on a typical shift.
Every year at the Mifflin Street Block Party, residents’ items are stolen and their property is damaged because they are not able to control who enters their house. Even if nothing is stolen or damaged, a rowdy crowd can attract police attention and result in a fine for house occupants for selling alcohol without a license. Many blame the wild atmosphere and occasional disorderly conduct on people who are not actually UW-Madison students.
UW-Madison Chancellor John Wiley said Wednesday he is committed to working with peer universities to protect workers’ rights by pressuring apparel manufacturers to adopt stricter disclosure policies.
The state of Wisconsin, in an effort to regain authority over food service delegation and spending, is planning to propose a reevaluation of the current vendor system used across the state, including on the University of Wisconsin campus.
Vietnam spurs the Birth of Mifflin Street Block Party: 1969
The Mifflin Street Block Party began in 1969 as a street dance to celebrate community spurred by demonstrations taking place all over the country in response to the Vietnam Conflict. It ended as a confrontation between students and police to show the independence of the ââ?¬Å?Mifflandââ?¬Â area and the student distaste of the war.
A cold front did not stop the Madison Warming Center Campaign from holding a sleep-out on Library Mall Monday and Tuesday nights to gather more than 900 signatures for a petition and raise awareness of the need for a wet shelter in Madison at their ââ?¬Å?Falk-Lewicz-Villeââ?¬Â campsite.
Mayor Dave Cieslewicz unveiled his ââ?¬Å?Imagine Madisonââ?¬Â initiative, encouraging discussions of the cityââ?¬â?¢s future, through a mid-term speech at a Downtown Rotary Club meeting at the Edgewater Hotel Wednesday.
The University of Wisconsin Labor Licensing Policy Committee met with Chancellor John Wiley to further discuss current issues surrounding UW merchandise production and workers� rights Wednesday.
Madison, Wis. ââ?¬â? The University of Wisconsin-Madison is introducing two new stem-cell programs to lay the groundwork for future research and keep the university in a leading position.
Donald James Lucey passed away on Friday, April 22, 2005. He was employed by UW campus in Madison and worked for 28 years with the school.
John A. “Jack” Duffie, age 80, died on Saturday, April 23, 2005. In 1954 Jack joined the faculty at UW to found the Solar Energy Laboratory in the College of Engineering. He was its director until he retired as Emeritus Professor of Chemical Engineering in 1988, and is recognized around the world as a pioneer in the solar energy field.
Challenging the notion that science periodicals target only a scientific audience, the executive editor of Scientific American said magazines like hers help the general public appreciate new discoveries. Mariette DiChristina told a crowd of approximately 50 in Memorial Union Tuesday that science is not simply the realm of the educated elite.
Since UW-Madison’s first class met Feb. 5, 1849, the university has only grown-in square feet, students, faculty, majors and public involvement. Growing is still the top priority, according to UW-Madison Associate Vice Chancellor for Facilities Planning and Management Alan Fish and Director of Planning & Landscape Architecture Gary Brown, as they unveiled the draft of the UW-Madison Campus Master Plan Tuesday at the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation.
The Campus Natural Areas Committee held an open input session Tuesday to solicit public opinion on the group’s struggle to maintain and protect campus natural areas in its master plan.
Ald. Zach Brandon, District 7, wrote a letter to Mayor Dave Cieslewicz demanding that the Associated Students of Madison foot the bill for the cost of the Mifflin Street Block Party April 30.
Restoration of Bascom Hall, which began August 2004, is set to conclude this week. Construction has focused on renovating the building’s wooden columns and portico.
Enforcement of city drinking ordinances at Saturday’s Mifflin Street Block Party will mirror that of prior years, city officials said Tuesday night.
The University of Wisconsin Campus Natural Areas Committee held a public meeting Tuesday night to hear views on the future of the campus natural areas.
Scientists who research embryonic stem cells may face increased regulations under new guidelines announced Tuesday by the National Academy of Sciences.
In preparation for the second-largest bash of the year in the city, a group of Madison officials and Mifflin Street residents gathered Tuesday night to discuss logistics of Saturday�s Mifflin Street Block Party.
A draft of the Campus Master Plan was presented Tuesday detailing the next 20 years of construction on University of Wisconsin campus buildings, transportation, utilities and green space.
More than half of City Council members co-signed a letter addressed to Mayor Dave Cieslewicz Tuesday asking him to send the Associated Students of Madison a bill for the costs of this weekend�s Mifflin Street Block Party.
A 20-year-old girl died at her Langdon Street apartment Tuesday morning, marking the first lethal case in a month-long series of distressing events near campus.
Citing a lack of leadership by the federal government, the National Academy of Sciences proposed ethical guidelines yesterday for research with human embryonic stem cells.
After the Boston Red Sox won the World Series last October, a Boston friend told me he rode an emotional high for weeks, and even now feels a rush of exhilaration when he recalls the victory.
Shedding new light on brain-related diseases, UW-Madison scientists Jeffrey Johnson and Marcus J. Calkins have discovered a way to “re-engineer” the brain that may defend against such diseases as Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s and Huntington’s diseases. Johnson’s team is pioneering a procedure that prevents oxygen from building up to toxic levels in the brain.
Even the intensifying rain outside could not dampen the optimistic mood surrounding UW-Madison’s presentation of its Campus Master Plan to the Joint Southeast Campus Committee Monday night.
Taking a trip to the hospital is an experience most people would rather do without, but if injured or sick, students and residents of Madison as well as patients from around the state can expect top-ranked care from the award-winning and nationally recognized UW Hospital and Clinics system.
Mifflin Street residents and interested UW-Madison students have one last chance to hear police lay down the law regarding Mifflin Block Party expectations before the Saturday festivities. At a meeting tonight, city officials will clarify the ground rules for the Mifflin event, as well as hammer out concerns with students.
After the controversy settled on the date for the Mifflin Street Block Party, city and university officials are informing residents of final plans, safety issues and expectations necessary for the success of the annual revelry.
While the affirmative action debate shows no signs of slowing down, the state of California may soon begin using race as a characteristic for admission to California�s public universities.
Two weeks after Associated Students of Madison members proposed a mandatory diversity education program as an addition to the Student Orientation Advising and Registration program, SOAR directors said they are in favor of the program, but they remain undecided how it should be implemented.
After the Madison Warming Center Campaign rallied in front of the City County Building Monday afternoon, the group traveled down State Street ââ?¬â? ending at Library Mall for a two-day sleep-out in a push for a wet shelter built in the city for homeless people who have alcohol and drug addictions.
James Burgess, former publisher of the Wisconsin State Journal, has contributed $1 million to the UW-Madison School of Journalism in efforts to raise integrity and ethics among future journalists who attend this school. Increasing the amount of courses devoted to ethics within the Journalism School will bring to light the importance of responsible writing and the obligation of truth journalists owe to society.
Mayor Dave Cieslewicz’s announcement Thursday morning that the city of Madison had officially set April 30 as the date for the Mifflin Street Block Party came as a huge relief. After months of irrational hope that students would agree to have the party May 7-the eve of the first day of final exams-city officials came to the realization that students would party April 30 whether there was a police presence or not.
If you were raped or sexually harassed, would you know where to go?
Most UW-Madison students don’t.
But victims can turn to the Dane County Rape Crisis Center for help.
Mozart’s creativity led him to compose magnificent symphonies. Shakespeare’s creativity inspired him to write timeless plays. Einstein’s creativity helped him formulate a revolutionary vision of the universe.
Gov. Jim Doyle was on hand Friday when UW-Madison held the grand opening of its new 52,000 square foot, $8.56 million Crew House.
The facility features a plethora of new additions that, according to UW-Madison Athletic Department Spokesperson Paul Capobianco, will help the university’s three crew teams better compete with the nation’s other top-tier squads.
Late in the evening and early into the morning, when only raccoons and the occasional badger roam the UW-Madison campus, the Waste and Recycling night crew makes its rounds.
UW-Madison Marching Band Director Michael Leckrone said he felt he received a vote of confidence for his decision to fine band members for profanity when a Dane County Court dismissed a lawsuit pending against him Friday.
Despite having an optimistic edge, the issue of affirmative action has again come under fire by individuals who claim the strategy is hurting minorities more than helping.
A 21-year-old University of Wisconsin senior was held at knifepoint in the stairwell of a North Carroll Street apartment building early Saturday morning when a man demanded her purse.
Roughly 70 members of the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Student Association were sent an e-mail of a racially derogatory nature April 18, with a rapid search of possible culprits following.
A district judge ruled to dismiss a lawsuit last week filed by a former University of Wisconsin student and varsity band member who had been fined $41.38 for swearing on a returning bus trip from the 2004 Big Ten women�s basketball tournament.
University of Wisconsin Provost and Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs Peter Spear, who has announced he will retire in December, said he has witnessed many changes at UW since joining the faculty nearly three decades ago. Among them, he says, is the changing diversity and climate.
The Wisconsin Alumni Student Board will kick off its fifth annual University of Wisconsin All-Campus Party Monday.
Ten UW-Madison faculty members will be honored for teaching excellence Tuesday at the Distinguished Teaching Awards.
The awards include a $5,000 stipend funded through a variety of sources.
The area arts community lost a major figure Tuesday when Barry Robinson died of heart failure at age 49.
Robinson, who acted as business and public relations manager at University Theater since 1980 and as chairman of the Dane County Cultural Affairs Commission from 1994 to 2004, dedicated most of his life to arts organizations both on and off campus.
UW-Madison representatives revealed another phase of the Campus Master Plan Thursday, unveiling basic plans for the tentatively named “University of Wisconsin-Madison Welcome Center.”
UW-Madison students and state-worker unions combined efforts Thursday as they rallied and marched from Bascom Hill to the Capitol demanding a state budget that will help UW-Madison students and state workers.
The Mifflin Street Block Party is officially slated for April 30 following a closed meeting Thursday morning among Mayor Dave Cieslewicz, the Madison Police Department and Ald. Mike Verveer, District 4.
It seemed like Wisconsin was going to stick to its progressive tradition. Although President George W. Bush had enacted a policy on stem-cell research prohibiting federal funding for the acquisition of new embryonic stem-cell lines, Wisconsin had taken it�s own steps to advance the science. Via actions such as Gov. Jim Doyle�s fiscal commitment to embryonic stem-cell research in his most recent budget, the state seemed to support the study of embryonic stem cells. Unfortunately, just as things were looking up for embryonic stem-cell research in Wisconsin, proponents of the research hit a roadblock.
The Office of the Dean of Students announced it will delay office reorganization until next fall to give University of Wisconsin students a chance to provide input.
The City of Madison Downtown Coordinating Committee discussed the future of University of Wisconsin campus visitor information as well as transportation Thursday night.
The Madison Long-Range Transportation Commission discussed further developments and recommendations for successful pedestrian, bike and motor vehicle co-existence in a meeting Thursday night.
University of Wisconsin- Madison students and members of the Teaching Assistants� Association joined together with state workers at the Capitol Thursday afternoon to rally for the betterment of high education, fairer wages and increased health care.
