Next semester may be a little bit different for many students at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, as many may not be here. With tuition at an all time high and constantly rising, the question must be asked: how valuable is a Wisconsin education?
The dean of the College of Letters and Science, Gary Sandefur, spoke to the Rotary Club of Madison Wednesday on the current state of the largest college at the University of Wisconsin.
Seven University of Wisconsin College Republicans held an eat-in 12:30 Wednesday afternoon at the Capitol Rotunda next to students convening a hunger strike to protest what they call the ââ?¬Å?hypocrisyââ?¬Â of the Associated Students of Madison.
State legislators presented a bill Wednesday requiring hospitals to provide information on emergency contraception to rape victims.
The Office of State Employment Relations rejected the fourth 2003-05 contract proposal made by the Teaching Assistants� Association in the past year and a half during a meeting Wednesday.
UW-Parkside students and a number of faculty members rallied Wednesday in support of Xun “George” Wang, an associate professor of sociology who reportedly faces dismissal in a dispute over teaching weekend classes.
Wisconsin’s economy and business climate eked out an above average grade on an annual report card released Wednesday.
Cold, hard cash is one of the main reasons why the University of Wisconsin men’s hockey team is bumped from the Kohl Center at the start of every other postseason.
By remaining undefeated until the final 6 seconds of the regular season, Illinois revived one of the great debates in sports.
When Meg Gaines was diagnosed with ovarian cancer in 1994, she was determined to fight the disease.
If you’re a college student, a child-care provider, a hunter or a crook, you’ll have to pay more under Gov. Jim Doyle’s proposed budget.
Soon the last final exam will end, the caps and gowns will adorn graduates and the time spent as college students will come to a close. For most college students, graduation becomes the time to move into the real world, find a job and start the careers they have learned about for four years.
The truth is out there, and it may be closer than you think.
Recent data from the Mars rovers and the Huygens probe on Saturn’s moon Titan reveal tantalizing evidence that life existed or still exists elsewhere in our solar system.
U.S. Sen. Russ Feingold, D-Wis., is helping to spearhead a bipartisan effort to raise the amount of the maximum Pell Grant award from $4,050 to $4,500.
Feingold, along with a bipartisan group of Senate colleagues, sent a letter to the chair and ranking member of the Senate Budget Committee strongly urging them to increase the maximum award to help lower income students receive a college education, reported WisPolitics.com.
Family and friends of Paul Reisinger gathered Tuesday evening at Gunderson Funeral Home, 7435 University Ave., to lay the 65-year-old UW-Madison student to rest. Reisinger, who was discovered dead in Van Vleck Hall Friday, was a Division of Continuing Studies student participating in the senior guest auditors program.
Associated Students of Madison decided Tuesday to use the $1.2 million segregated-fee surplus to, among other things, offset next year’s fees and fund the bus program. ASM’s reserve board struck down two other proposals that would have utilized a portion of the surplus.
The Associated Students of Madison�s reserve board decided it will give nearly $757,000 in segregated reserve fees back to University of Wisconsin students after denying two student organizations� applications for a portion of the reserve funding Tuesday night.
ASM subtracted the proposed
The Wisconsin Womenââ?¬â?¢s Network celebrated International Womenââ?¬â?¢s Day with an event titled ââ?¬Å?Uncommon Lives of Common Womenââ?¬Â Tuesday night at the Central Madison Public Library.
Downloadable music, movies, e-books and clip art may soon accrue sales tax if Gov. Jim Doyle�s proposal to expand Wisconsin�s taxes to downloadable Internet materials is approved by the state legislature.
Eight students at California State University at Chico were charged March 3 with various crimes after a student was killed during a fraternityââ?¬â?¢s ââ?¬Å?Hell Week.ââ?¬Â
he accolades continue to pour in for University of Wisconsin standout Mike Wilkinson. The Big Ten announced its all-conference men�s basketball teams Tuesday, with a pair of Badgers receiving honors. Wilkinson, a senior forward, earned first-team honors from the league�s coaches and media, while sophomore forward Alando Tucker garnered a pair of third-team selections.
Former University of Wisconsin basketball player Maurice ââ?¬Å?Booââ?¬Â Wade, 20, was sentenced to 18 months probation and ordered to complete domestic violence counseling Tuesday morning after being charged for bail jumping and disorderly conduct.
University of Wisconsin football player Marcus Randle El, a freshman, was arrested for battery and suspended from practice and competition Monday.
To say there aren’t cheerleaders at University of Wisconsin men’s hockey games is like calling the students who don clown wigs, cow udders and Elvis costumes casual fans.
The University of Wisconsin football team’s spring scrimmage will be April 16 at Lussier Stadium at Madison La Follette High School.
Modesty might be one of Mike Wilkinson’s strongest attributes.
While they waited for stragglers to show up, New Yorker magazine writer David Denby and the students of Professor Deborah Blum’s journalism class made the kind of small talk you do when yout-of-towners are about.
In “The Da Vinci Code,” author Dan Brown described the number phi, which he claimed occurs in countless occasions in nature. Because of its ubiquity, Brown wrote, phi was dubbed the Divine Proportion by ancient scholars who believed the number was “God’s building block for the world.” But is the number really all around us? And is it as magical as Brown would have us believe?
Harvard president Lawrence H. Summers ignited a controversy in January when he suggested that innate differences between men and women explain why women are underrepresented in science and engineering at top universities. His comments prompted swift responses from researchers and educators who attribute the difference more to external factors than to physiological causes.
The New Yorker is finding its way out of its home metropolis with a visit to UW-Madison. The magazine is stepping out as part of its college tour for three days of conversation, panels and entertainment.
The exchanges between students sitting in the O and P sections of Camp Randall during football games in the fall and the treaties negotiated between American Indians and British colonists in the eighteenth century may have more in common than one initially perceives. Indeed, the land that currently bears the name Camp Randall was originally American Indian property. Furthermore, the exchanges between colonists and indigenous peoples probably included a few choice words.
UW-Madison faculty voiced its concern over the university’s Campus Master Plan at a meeting of the Faculty Senate Monday at Bascom Hall.
Addressing issues of tuition increases, faculty and staff salary gaps and federal financial aid cuts, UW System President Kevin Reilly met with student reporters from around the state Monday.
Sometimes humorous, sometimes serious, but always impassioned, the Rev. Al Sharpton ignited a capacity crowd yesterday in the Memorial Union Theater as part of the Distinguished Lecture Series. Discussing issues from the 2004 presidential election to gay marriage, Sharpton encouraged students to never succumb to apathy.
Gov. Jim Doyle met with top environmental officials in Mexico City Monday to discuss water standards and to survey opportunities for Wisconsin businesses.
University of Wisconsin System President Kevin P. Reilly discussed recent budget proposals that could affect Wisconsin higher education in a press conference Monday.
Students from several University of Wisconsin campuses around the state began a three-day hunger strike Monday, asking state legislators to alter their stand on tuition, which has jumped 37.5 percent since 2003.
Marcus Randle El, a freshman from Markham, Ill., was suspended from the University of Wisconsin football team after he was arrested Monday and tentatively charged with domestic battery.
I wish I had more friends like Bob and Irwin Goodman.
I wish you did, too.
If there were more people like the Goodmans in this world, our present would offer a greater source of optimism and our future would be easier to embrace.
A 65-year-old Madison man found dead Friday morning in a UW-Madison building restroom has been identified as Paul F. Reisinger, a retired insurance systems consultant and mathematics tutor at Madison Memorial High School.
To get the attention of state lawmakers, about 20 UW-Madison student leaders have committed themselves to a three-day hunger strike that kicked off Monday morning in the Capitol rotunda.
Former Democratic presidential candidate the Rev. Al Sharpton blasted the Bush administration and tried to instill hope and offer strategies to a crowd eager to hear his take on what went wrong for Democrats in the 2004 election, and what can be done to changes things in 2006.
Hoping to stem the trend of increasing tuition, a coalition of students, teaching assistants and professors will hunger strike in the Capitol from March 7 to 10. The three-day fast will protest Gov. Jim Doyle’s proposed 14 percent tuition increase over the next two years.
Hoping to stem the trend of increasing tuition, a coalition of students, teaching assistants and professors will hunger strike in the Capitol from March 7 to 10. The three-day fast will protest Gov. Jim Doyle’s proposed 14 percent tuition increase over the next two years.
A 66-year-old man was found dead in a Van Vleck Hall bathroom Friday morning, according to a UW-Madison police report.
Police found the man, whose name is being withheld until his relatives are notified, after responding to a report of an unconscious male at approximately 10 a.m.
At a press conference Friday, Gov. Jim Doyle accepted a $15 million donation from the Oscar Rennebohm Foundation, which will go to build the new Interdisciplinary Research Complex on campus.
Film critics and moviegoers alike will gather in Madison March 31 to April 3 for the seventh annual Wisconsin Film Festival.
Heaven only knows what Phil Hellmuth Jr. might have achieved had he not dropped out of the UW-Madison during his junior year.
Tucked, dropped, rolled or crammed between coupon mailers and utility bills, 4,000 copies of The New Yorker magazine land in Madison-area mailboxes each week – a special delivery of cosmopolitan wit, muck-heaving investigative reporting and the best in new American fiction.
The Oscar Rennebohm Foundation announced Friday a donation of $15 million to aid in the costs of building the new University of Wisconsin Interdisciplinary Research Complex.
Former University of Wisconsin football player Troy Vincent was brought in by coach Barry Alverez before last season to talk to the Badgers about a number of issues.
Q Who paid for the new UW-Madison greenhouses that have been constructed at the corner of Walnut Street and Observatory Drive?
The New Yorker College Tour will visit the University of Wisconsin March 8 through March 10 to present material from The New Yorker magazine to promote the publication by reaching a wider variety of people and places.
Quoted: Ray Aldag, UW-Madison professor of management and human resources.
“This is Dorothy’s house going up in the tornado — so it’s hard to say where it will land.”
Lawmakers and members of the state�s administrative units met with University of Wisconsin System officials Wednesday to discuss various ideas to refine the affairs of higher education.
University of Wisconsin police responded to the discovery of an unconscious male in Van Vleck Hall Friday morning.
The whining is loud over the National Collegiate Athletic Association’s unprecedented attempt to tell schools that if they do not educate their players, they will lose scholarships and eligibility for post-season play.
Quoted: Professor Stanley Temple, Wildlife ecology professor.
Millions of birds eaten.
What if Bucky Badger were brought to life and the experiment went horribly wrong?
Economically speaking, 2004 was the best year since the collapse of the dot-com bubble. Peering into the future, experts gathered at UW-Madison for a semiannual economic briefing Friday agreed that the regional and national economic outlook continues to be sunny.
