In a collaborative effort to reduce high-risk drinking in the downtown Madison area, several city and University of Wisconsin organizations met Tuesday to collectively discuss solutions to disorderly house parties in the area.
The University of Wisconsin Athletic Board Finance Committee passed proposed ticket-price increases this week to student and non-student tickets for several UW sports.
A nearly two-hour brainstorming session Tuesday at UW-Madison on the problem of dangerous house parties yielded plenty of beery anecdotes but no firm solutions.
Every day in Madison students file into crowded lecture halls and discussion rooms and listen attentively to a speaker while taking copious notes.
It is beginning to sink in that Ebba Gebisa is embarking on the rarest of farewell tours, a two-city engagement that begins tonight at the Kohl Center.
Life was back to normal for State Street merchants a day after underground electrical cables overloaded, caught fire and cut power to much of Downtown.
A condom for fire hoses. A grenade that eats oxygen. A transmitter to help firefighters navigate a smoke-filled room. Only the last one won $10,000.
Three College of Engineering students created FireSite, a radio-like guide that lets firefighters “see” through smoke. The students, who won the 2005 Schoof’s Prize for Creativity this February, say any of us can come up with creative a ideas that can make a difference.
A stellar flare that originated before the dawn of recorded human history delivered a mighty burst of energy to the Earth last December, astronomers announced Friday.
UW-Madison recreational facilities like the Natatorium and the SERF will become more open to students, thanks to ample funding approved at the Student Services Finance Committee’s meeting Monday in Memorial Union.
In an effort to protect the rights of workers who make UW apparel, a group of UW-Madison students and administrators requested Monday that Chancellor John Wiley put pressure on UW licensees that outsource labor.
UW-Madison freshman Lesha Jones made her initial appearance in Dane County court Monday morning, facing charges of burglary to a building or dwelling, a felony punishable with up to 12.5 years in prison and a $25,000 fine.
While Monday meant it was time to get back to the grind for most Madison residents, thousands of UW-Madison students and staff on the east side of campus saw their day suddenly grind to a halt after an electrical fire sparked a two-hour power outage.
State Street lacked its familiar glow Monday evening after two underground electrical fires knocked out power on much of the east side of campus and throughout the downtown business district.
Nearly every student on campus walks up Bascom Hill daily, yet most are unaware of the importance of the building at the top of the hill and the history behind the hill itself.
wenty-six years ago, Mark Johnson was finishing up what would be his final season with the Wisconsin men�s hockey team, an unknown outside of college hockey circles. A year later, Johnson would be one of the most famous athletes in all of the United States with one of the most amazing stories to tell. All it took was a year of hard work and a couple of goals against the Russians in perhaps the most famous hockey game ever.
Chancellor John Wiley�s Special Committee on Labor and Licensing made two recommendations to Wiley at a press conference Monday regarding their ongoing effort to end sweatshop production of University of Wisconsin merchandise.
The downtown Madison area, including parts of the University of Wisconsin campus, became a bit darker Monday as a pair of power outages discharged the State Street neighborhood due to underground electrical fires.
Joanne M. Doak (nee Schwarzmeier), age 55, passed away peacefully on Saturday, Feb. 12, 2005. She was a founding member of the UW Women’s Hockey Club back when women “didn’t” play hockey.
Four state Department of Corrections administrators don’t have to pay for personal travel in state cars. The administrators each have round-trip commutes of 60 to 210 miles, costing taxpayers nearly $200 a day when all four drive to their offices.
This is not an issue to divide liberals and conservatives. This is not an issue of military preparedness, nor is it a referendum on the war in Iraq. It is a question of values – values at the heart of America’s tradition.
Attention Harvard Law students: The U.S. Army wants you. Oh, and your counterparts at Yale, New York University and other leading law schools. Sadly, your professors don’t want you to know that.
Janet Lemke Chase, age 71, passed, away on Sunday, Feb. 20, 2005. In 1968, Janet moved back to the Madison area and became a professor’s assistant for UW until her retirement in 1996.
The UW-Madison Center on Wisconsin Strategy has trained nearly 1,000 workers through a two-year job training program, aimed at advancing careers in health care and manufacturing.
I may be hopelessly naive and overly sentimental, but I don’t think the sports world as we know it will ever experience a moment like the one that crossed our paths 25 years ago today.
Climate change, according to UW-Madison researcher Jonathan Patz, is about a lot more than melting ice caps.
It’s also about people getting sick.
A university committee on labor licensing policies is trying to stamp out sweatshop-like worker abuses by asking UW-Madison Chancellor John Wiley to place tighter controls on the companies that manufacture apparel using the university’s name or logo.
Much of Downtown Madison and the UW-Madison campus were left in the dark for about 95 minutes Monday night when – for the second time in six hours – an underground electrical cable caught fire, sending flames and smoke up through State Street manholes.
Nobody’s lit up the fireworks yet or popped open the Veuve. But maybe someone should. The central city is booming in a way unimaginable only a decade or so ago.
Did I mention that the UW has almost $700 million in new construction in mind through 2011? “It’s the complete rejuvenation of big chunks of the campus,” notes Al Fish, UW Madison’s associate vice chancellor.
Hoping to combat what is perceived as an epidemic of alcoholism on the UW-Madison campus, a determined group of students decided to take matters into its own hands. Sharing only a mutual desire for chemical abstinence, Sober Students on Campus held their inaugural meeting Friday, playing games and sculpting instead of hitting the bottle.
As pressure increases to become the perfect students and get into their schools of choice, UW-Madison students are spending more and more time making sure their applications will catch the eyes of admission review boards.
When judges returned to the Memorial Union Theater Stage Saturday night and announced Madisonââ?¬â?¢s Tangled Up in Blue had taken 3rd place in the Midwest Regional finals of the 2005 International Championship of Collegiate A Cappella (ICCA), members of the female vocal ensemble went wild. It wasnââ?¬â?¢t first place, which would have taken them to the National competition at New Yorkââ?¬â?¢s Lincoln Center. That honor went to the tuxedoed dons of Straight No Chaser from Indiana University. ââ?¬Å?But itââ?¬â?¢s way better than we expected,ââ?¬Â Tangled Up in Blue ensemble member Nicki BelSante said.
With nearly 37 percent of students enrolled at the University of Wisconsin hailing from zip codes outside of the state, UW is widely recognized throughout the country and distant parts of the world as an academic and research institution because of the ability to attract people not from the dairy state.
In a joint statement from Secretary for Consular Affairs Maura Harty and Under Secretary for Border and Transportation Security Asa Hutchinson Feb. 19, the U.S. Departments of State and Homeland Security announced improved visa processing for international students, businesspeople and other visitors.
A series of ticket price increases and a major departure from tradition are the major items in a $71million spending request made Friday by the University of Wisconsin Athletic Department for 2005-06.
You might think I’d be happy: Gov. Doyle and the Republican-controlled state Legislature were in a bidding war to see who could cut my taxes the most.
What’s subversive about playing Scrabble, sculpting clay, and watching movies? Plenty, when it’s UW-Madison students recreating without alcohol, despite attending a university ranked in national surveys as one of the country’s top “party schools” year after year.
A Wisconsin lawmaker has let loose his own salvo in the growing national controversy over allegedly “anti-American” remarks made by Colorado professor Ward Churchill.
Chris Clausen ran his first marathon in June, then followed it three months later with his first Ironman Triathlon.
“My friends said I was crazy to run a marathon and crazy to do an Ironman. It strengthened my resolve to find something even crazier,” said Clausen, 20, a UW-Madison junior from DeForest.
Janesville — William Mentele, 21, a nursing student at UW-Rock County, said it’s getting harder for him to afford college.
It’s no mystery what sent a record flood of students to SAT test-prep courses this year: anxiety over the new, written portion of the college entrance exam.
In the Jan. 16 Wisconsin State Journal, guest columnist Don Nichols offered a solution to the state’s property tax dilemma, but it is not good policy.
In his State of the State talk, Gov. Jim Doyle remarked that Wisconsin students have the highest score on the ACT. At a recent meeting, state School Superintendent Libby Burmaster said Wisconsin students always rank near the top on national tests. Here (right) is some data that suggests this is not likely to continue, nor is always true even now.
Researchers with UW-Madison and a private stem-cell research center have removed at least one of the potential stumbling blocks that stand in the way of testing human therapies promised by human embryonic stem cells.
UW-Madison students may find themselves wandering over to the Mifflin Street Block Party earlier than usual this year.
The event traditionally happens the first Saturday in May, and if the tradition continues this year, the party would be held on May 7, the day before finals begin.
This evening, Mills Music Hall in the Humanities Building will be filled with excitement as campus groups including Madhatters, Tangled up in Blue, the UW Percussion Ensemble, Dance Elite and the Wisconsin Improv Troupe perform to raise money for victims of the Dec. 26 tsunami in Southeast Asia.
Wisconsin Union officials and students discussed plans Wednesday for upcoming major renovations, which could include the addition of a 300-seat film theater at Memorial Union and the demolition of Union South.
As a new year presents students with another semester of classes and a wide array of opportunities to create new friends and experiences, it offers others the opportunity to take the English as a Second Language Program, an advantageous program to both the student teachers and the students involved.
Two months after the tsunami disaster, University of Wisconsin students and faculty will gather tonight to continue their efforts to aid tsunami victims.
Proposals to renovate the University of Wisconsin Memorial Union and Union South were presented in an open forum Wednesday night for students and faculty to give their input regarding the proposed changes.
A series of Campus Master Plan meetings finished Wednesday night with a town hall meeting at the Health Science Learning Center outlining plans for the west side of campus.
Students collected at the Memorial Union�s Great Hall during the Multicultural Career Fair Wednesday afternoon to protest Army recruiting on college campuses.
University of Wisconsin law student Christopher Ochoa, who was wrongfully imprisoned for murder, spoke of the necessity to reform the criminal justice system in front of a small group in the Memorial Union Wednesday night as a part of the Capital Punishment portion of the Distinguished Lecture Series.
City officials are following tradition by planning to celebrate the Mifflin Street Block Party the first Saturday of May. However, Saturday, May 7, falls on the University of Wisconsin�s official final exams study day this year, with the testing starting the following day.
University of Wisconsin�s International Academic Program announced Monday the reinstatement of a study-abroad program to the Hebrew University in Israel.
Merle F. Bliss, age 82, of Beloit, died on Wednesday, Feb. 16, 2005. After 14 1/2 years, Merle was the oldest living liver transplant patient from UW-Madison.
A redshirt freshman on the UW-Madison’s basketball team was in jail Monday after being tentatively charged with burglary and fraudulent use of a credit card.
One of the lessons Barry Alvarez learned as an assistant coach under Hayden Fry at Iowa in the 1980s is that it’s OK to have a lot of strong personalities on a coaching staff, provided they have well-defined roles and get along.
Wisconsin will benefit from a federal decision to streamline visa procedures that had discouraged foreign students and scientists from coming to, or remaining at, American universities.
As a statewide audit of cell phone use nears completion, UW-Madison continues to pull the plug on some of its roughly 1,500 state-owned cell phones.
When Todd Denny asked everyone in the room who knows a survivor of rape to stand up, every person in the room arose from his or her chair.
