As Mary Schauf embarks on her new position as captain of the central district at the Madison Police Department, she says University of Wisconsin students are pertinent to her job. Schauf said she has a unique relationship with the campus community, and for this reason she seeks the student voice in the decisions she makes.
State Attorney General Peg Lautenschlager issued an advisory opinion Tuesday proclaiming new legislation aimed at banning University of Wisconsin System health services from advertising and dispensing emergency contraception is unconstitutional.
University of Wisconsin Associate Vice Chancellor Alan Fish discussed potential changes for student housing on the fringes of the UW campus at a City of Madison Housing Committee meeting Wednesday night.
Associated Students of Madison is set to meet with Mayor Dave Cieslewicz Thursday afternoon to discuss a Mifflin Street Block Party date change.
The Madison Police department will take action on illegal activity consisting of providing alcohol to underage drinkers and selling cups at house parties on both April 30 and May 7.
The state government removed a total of $26.5 million from the UW System’s Auxiliary Funds during the 2004-’05 biennium in order to balance the state budget.
Hiram Smith Hall, a UW-Madison building on the west side of campus, was evacuated Tuesday after the Physical Plant received a call about a broken water main along the west side of the building.
Drinking beer and paying taxes are two things Wisconsinites do in high quantities. So it should come as little surprise that a proposal to increase taxes on beer has tapped strong feelings over the best way to fund alcohol abuse treatment programs in the state.
The University of Wisconsin Offices of the Dean of Students proposed a plan to reorganize and promote student services by the end of the spring semester in hopes of creating better assistance.
Several University of Wisconsin student organizations submitted a proposal to the Student Orientation, Advising and Registration Board of Directors Tuesday that, if passed, would require all incoming students to attend an educational meeting about diversity on campus.
The Policy, Alternatives, Community and Education Project discussed keg registration and the Mifflin Street Block Party at a Partnership Council Meeting Tuesday afternoon at the University of Wisconsin Foundation Building.
Try a quick brainteaser: how many ways can you express 4 as a sum of whole numbers? There are 1+1+1+1, 2+1+1, 2+2, 3+1 and 4 itself, making five ways. Simple, right?
Now try it for 100.
Children with autism generally avoid social contact, but scientists were never sure why until now. A recent UW-Madison brain study suggests that autistic individuals feel uncomfortable and threatened by looking another person in the eye.
It was a paleontologist’s dream find: a three-and-a-half foot thigh bone from a Tyrannosaurus rex, preserved wonderfully in the Montana ground. But when the scientists tried to load the femur onto their tiny helicopter, they realized to their dismay it would not fit. Tragically, they would have to break the precious bone to fit it on board.
Despite a number of City Council seats up for grabs, as well as a host of other contested positions, today’s election turnout is predicted to be low as usual. Local politicians, however, met at Memorial Union Monday to urge students and community members to get out and vote.
UW-Madison Provost and Vice Chancellor of Academic Affairs Peter Spear announced Monday that he will be the latest high-ranking UW-Madison official to call it a career.
A criminal complaint formally filed Monday in Milwaukee revealed more details of the relationship between UW-Madison Professor Lewis Keith Cohen and a 14-year-old boy he allegedly met on the Internet. Police arrested Cohen in a Subway restaurant in Greendale, Wis., March 15 after he allegedly arranged to meet the boy. According to the complaint, Cohen said he was going to take the boy to a park where the two could “talk about sex” and “satisfy curiosity.” However, the complaint stated Cohen said he was not planning on actually having sex with the boy.
Student voting begins today on whether to approve an increase in segregated fees for renovations on Memorial Union and Union South.
Mark Guthier, director of the Wisconsin Union, said the renovations would include basic building improvements, as well as new program spaces for student organizations.
After a lengthy semi-nomadic existence, the University of Wisconsin men�s and women�s crew teams have finally found a home.
Dane County Executive Kathleen Falk and Ald. Austin King, District 8, spoke at the Memorial Union Monday encouraging students to vote in Madison�s spring elections today. Only two City Council districts within the University of Wisconsin campus are contested.
University of Wisconsin Provost Peter Spear announced plans Monday to retire at the end of the 2005 fall semester.
If the computer age is continually testing how well institutions protect personal information, the nation’s colleges and universities may be earning a failing grade.
University of Wisconsin merchandise is made in sweatshops. What does this mean?
Workers in the factories that make UW caps, hats and sweatshirts are routinely denied their basic human rights. They are forced to work 60- to 70-hour weeks, sometimes 24-hour shifts. They are physically and verbally abused. They are groped and sexually harassed by their supervisors. They are paid poverty wages.
Rice, pinto beans, Malt-O-Meal and raisins found a new home in a local Madison food pantry, as the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees Local 171 protesters delivered a food shipment to Wisconsin Union Director Mark Guthier’s office Friday morning and found him absent.
Questions are being raised as to how a 2003 Supreme Court ruling on affirmative action, which stated race was one of many factors that could not be considered when deciding admission to a university or other programs, applies to financial-aid policies. The College Board hopes to answer these questions by releasing a manual meant to help colleges evaluate their diversity-related programs.
Campus Labor Union workers delivered cases of groceries to the office of the Memorial Union Director Mark Guthier to provide food for his family and to prevent him from cutting union-represented jobs Friday.
University of Wisconsin�s Labor Licensing Policy Committee set up mock sweatshops in front of Chancellor John Wiley�s office Friday in an attempt to protest what the group calls Wiley�s refusal to do everything in his power to end sweatshop practice in UW licensee factories.
Vicki Bier, a professor of engineering at the UW-Madison, is paid to think like a terrorist. She’s heading up a research project looking into ways terrorists might attach the United States.
It’s a ghastly scenario. Terrorists slip a teaspoon of botulinum toxin into a batch of milk at a dairy plant. As gallons of contaminated milk disapper off store shelves, patients begin showing up in emergency rooms complaining of blurred vision, droopy eyes, then paralysis of the face, neck and arms.
Hidden from public view and even further from public awareness, the UW-Madison is engaged in often-lethal research involving hundreds of dogs each year. Some experiments entail surgery, others the introduction of pathogens. One even involves bleeding dogs to death.
According to Timothy Mulcahy, the UWââ?¬â?¢s associate vice chancellor for research policy, the UW has used an average of about 650 dogs a year over the last three years ââ?¬Å?in research and teaching activities.ââ?¬Â In its annual report to the U.S. Department of Agriculture for the year between Oct. 1, 2003 and Sept. 30, 2004, the UW reported using 421 dogs as research subjects. As of last week, relates Mulcahy, there were ââ?¬Å?113 dogs housed in UW facilities.ââ?¬Â
The Wisconsin Women Equal Prosperity Project discussed gender inequalities within the university on Thursday at the Pyle Center.
Even one of the committee members was initially locked out. The older man, a citizen appointee to the UW-Madison Graduate School’s Animal Care and Use Committee (IACUC), waited outside the National Primate Research Center on campus for several minutes last week before an employee opened the building’s locked entrance and let him in, along with a small group of animal-welfare advocates.
In its 75th year standing, the Memorial Union has given students, staff and alumni a place to congregate. This April, students will vote on a $120 million referendum to upgrade it.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison is an aggressive, self-interested participant in the business of cruel animal testing, according to the Alliance for Animals. The organization hosted a lecture titled “Behind Closed Doors” Thursday to discuss the issue of animal testing done at UW-Madison, specifically at the Primate Research Center.
Forcible rape in Madison increased by 52 percent in 2004, with a trend toward incidents occurring in the central area of the city, according to a report released by the Madison Police Department Thursday.
Madison’s rape rate rose 58 percent last year, according to a Madison Police Department report Thursday. In 2003, 62 cases were reported and 94 incidents were reported in 2004.
Since 21-year-old Jukenda Thomas was charged with hitting three University of Wisconsin students while drunk driving early March 12, one freshman remains in stable condition while two sophomores have been released from the hospital with broken bones.
Animal-rights representatives from Alliance for Animals spoke to University of Wisconsin students against the use of primates and other animals in scientific studies Wednesday night.
Louise F. Root-Robbins, co-director of the University of Wisconsin System�s Sloan Project for Academic Career Advancement, spoke to a crowd of UW students and faculty about gender equity in higher education Thursday night.
The University of Wisconsin search and screen committee publicly announced three candidates for the dean of education Thursday to replace retiring dean Charles Read.
Findings from a preliminary study concerning the possible firing of controversial University of Colorado ethnic studies professor Ward Churchill were released Monday by CU�s interim president Philip P. DiStefano.
Several University of Wisconsin students attended an open forum Thursday concerning the upcoming referendum that would increase segregated fees to help fund the renovation of the Memorial Union and Union South.
BOSTON, March 31 – Legislation authorizing embryonic stem cell research passed in the Massachusetts House of Representatives on Thursday by a margin large enough to override an expected veto by Gov. Mitt Romney.
Coming up with an idea for a company can be difficult-unless coming up with ideas is the company.
Two UW-Madison students have pioneered a business that markets ideas-the least tangible but perhaps most valuable asset of a successful company. In April 2004 Anand Chhatpar and Nate Altfeather co-founded BrainReactions, a company that outsources ideas to high-tech and consumer product firms.
The Statue of Liberty gained its place as a true Wisconsin monument, just before a flock of pink flamingos descended on Bascom Hill. Sound like the beginning of a wild piece of fiction? Nope, just a couple days in the life of some UW-Madison legends.
A pair of UW-Madison experts on student financial aid said Wednesday President Bush’s proposed 2006 budget would eliminate several important aid programs and drastically cut funding to others.
A press release issued Wednesday by the State Joint Committee on Finance stated the committee will not include domestic partner benefits for UW System faculty in the state budget, potentially resulting in lower recruitment and retention of UW-Madison faculty, according to university officials.
U.S. Rep. Tammy Baldwin, D- Madison, held an open discussion for students Wednesday night to touch on the Social Security debate and encourage students to get involved.
Stem-cell research at UW-Madison has been drawn into a legislative battle over whether health care professionals can use morality as justification for withholding medical information and refusing to perform medical practices.
**This opinion/letter also appears in the March 31 edition of the Daily Cardinal.
The administration�s recent cuts to federal financial aid for higher education send a clear message to students: When it comes to paying for college, don�t count on Pell Grants.
Chancellor John Wiley wrote Monday about continuing to make the University of Wisconsinââ?¬â?¢s campus more diverse. The UW administration ââ?¬Å?[remains] absolutely committed to building an inclusive community free of social bias and inclusion,ââ?¬Â he said. And creating a campus atmosphere free of social bias should absolutely be a priority at this university.
Findings released Monday by the U.S. Census Bureau pointed to some unexpected results. According to the findings, white women with bachelor�s degrees earned, on average, less than Asian and black women who have reached the same level of education.
With tax day rapidly approaching, the Volunteer Income Tax Assistance program offers income-tax assistance to students and low-income individuals free of charge.
The Joint West Campus Area Committee discussed upcoming planning strategies for the betterment of University of Wisconsin facilities, including city and campus culture, Wednesday night.
In a discussion with students and community members, Congresswoman Tammy Baldwin tackled the heated Social Security dilemma Wednesday night.
Two campus leaders spoke to University of Wisconsin students Wednesday about how recent proposals from the Bush administration might change campus-based financial-aid programs.
The Labor Licensing Committee, whose ultimate goal is to have university-licensed companies uphold fair labor practices, has commendable ideals. However, the decision of four members to resign in light of a dispute with Chancellor Wiley over his decision to be less harsh with licensees, hurts their worthy cause more than it helps.
UW System Board of Regents’ request to include $1 million for domestic partner benefits of system employees suffered a large blow Tuesday when the state’s Joint Committee on Finance recommended against including such funds in the state’s 2005-’07 budget.
Members of the Associated Students of Madison said the University of Wisconsin System Board of Regents returned a complaint regarding how members were picked to the School of Education dean search-and-screen committee without filing it with UW System President Kevin Reilly.
As tuition rates at universities across the country continue to swell, financial aid continues to play an increasingly significant role in the lives of a large portion of college students. In a study released by the National Center for Education Statistics, there has been a 16 percent increase of students requesting financial aid between the 1992-93 and 1999-2000 academic years.
