Rocker Bruce Springsteen made a big impression on University of Wisconsin students Thursday when he entered a student�s house after performing at a John Kerry rally to listen to the presidential hopeful�s speech from the West Washington apartment porch.
As of Monday, University of Wisconsin students will finally know if they have the winning numbers to the most-talked-about lottery on campus: the raffle to see who will receive season tickets for men�s basketball.
The UW men’s basketball team has been so successful the past few years that ticket demand skyrocketed. So the Athletic Department, after getting much student input, implemented a weighted lottery system to decide who would get tickets. This was a good idea that the fans themselves played a large part in coming up with.
Leif Bergquist’s back hurts. Maybe that’s because he’s been sitting in class for two hours straight, the back of an unyielding, plastic desk digging into his spine. Or maybe it’s because the hour-long ergometer workout he did in crew practice the evening before is catching up with him. For Leif, it’s difficult to tell anymore.
University and city officials met with Associated Students of Madison’s Halloween Planning Committee Wednesday to promote the weekend’s events as a fun and safe celebration with a community focus.
Pulitzer Prize-winning political cartoonist Matt Davies spoke to students at Chadbourne Residential College Wednesday evening as part of a series sponsored by the Public Affairs Writer in Residence program.
Davies is the 2004 recipient of the Herblock Prize, a new award named for three-time Pulitzer Prize winning cartoonist Herbert Block.
After what administrators are calling a “clerical oversight,” university officials canceled a concert at the Union Saturday night and have agreed to pay a portion of the expenses incurred in order to reschedule the event.
City and campus officials are confident the upcoming Halloween weekend will steer clear of the examples past celebrations have set.
Matt Davies, a Pulitzer Prize-winning editorial cartoonist, has been at the University of Wisconsin throughout the week speaking to students and faculty as part of a series titled ââ?¬Å?What Matters to Me and Why.ââ?¬Â
Halloween on State Street was a big part of campus life even before I was a student here in the early 1980s. For the most part, it has been a peaceful celebration that reflects the energy and creativity of students. Madison wouldn’t be the city it is if not for the 40,000 students on the UW campus. Students bring excitement, ideas and optimism to the city. Some of us like Madison so much that we find excuses to stick around after we graduate. That’s what I did, and now I’ve got a great excuse to keep living in Madison. In fact, my job requires it.
This fall, Madison residents have an opportunity to protect their lakes. And they can start in their very own front yards.
Autumn leaf litter washes into street gutters and travels through the storm sewers that lead directly to local lakes. Once there, phosphorus from the leaves fertilizes algae and produces algae blooms that offend the eye and nose, and can be toxic. Local agencies and activists urge Madisonians to manage leaves on their lawns to keep them out of the lakes.
Someday soon the world’s poorest and most hungry may be growing the world’s most sophisticated crops. At the 21st annual World Food Day teleconference, experts discussed the role of agricultural biotechnology in ending world hunger. UW-Madison students, staff and faculty watched the teleconference in the Pyle Center Oct. 15, joining almost one thousand other sites, mainly universities, participating in the event.
Police will require mandatory court dates for all juvenile offenses committed during Halloween, and will begin removing all bicycle racks and mopeds on State Street today in preparation for this weekend, according to a press release from the Madison Police Department.
Citing financial loss, the UW-Madison Memorial Union canceled its annual Thanksgiving Day buffet indefinitely. To replace the buffet, which had been deemed unprofitable, the Union will offer Thanksgiving meals to go, which can be ordered on its Web site.
Halloween is quickly approaching, and as you are putting the finishing touches on your costumes, the Associated Students of Madison is finalizing plans for an inclusive, fun and safe weekend celebration. ASM, in collaboration with Madison business associations, the City of Madison, the University of Wisconsin and the UW Greek System, is trying to make safe space for the entire community by holding costume contests for children, trick-or-treating at State Street businesses and having complimentary hay rides throughout the downtown area during the day.
During Monday�s news conference regarding the basketball ticket fiasco, a front row girl walks up to basketball head coach Bo Ryan and puts her arms on his shoulders.
A record number of students are planning to head to the polls for next week�s election.
The Harvard University Institute of Politics surveyed 1,202 college students nationwide ââ?¬â? drawn from a national database of almost 5.1 million students ââ?¬â? and found 72 percent said they were registered to vote and will ââ?¬Å?definitelyââ?¬Â vote this November, according to an IOP release.
It takes a strange event to turn the heads of people on a campus chock full of oddities such as a six-foot, walking, talking bratwurst mascot. Maybe that�s why nobody questioned their own sanity upon spying some large Hawaiian men taking off on cafeteria trays from the top of a snowy Bascom Hill a couple years back.
WHEN the World Cup soccer tournament reached the quarterfinal round in the late spring of 2002, Prof. Paul Alivisatos noticed a particularly fervent interest among his doctoral students in chemistry at the University of California. He eventually realized why. Of the eight countries competing, countries stretching around the globe from Brazil to Turkey to South Korea, Professor Alivisatos had a prot�©g�© from every one except Senegal.
The city of Madison is bracing itself for what is reported to be one of the biggest political rallies to ever hit the city and state.
What’s been lost in the last couple days [in the lottery situation] we believe,” said UW Deputy Athletic Director Jamie Pollard at a town hall-style meeting the Athletic Department held at the Kohl Center Monday, “is how proud we are of the student support.”
The UW-Madison Athletic Department held a press conference Monday to offer a solution for the problems with UW-Madison men’s basketball season tickets. An error with the Athletic Department’s software provider had excluded 625 students from the lottery.
A few weeks ago, the parents of a Harvard student told Dr. Richard Kadison, the chief of the university’s mental health service, that they suspected their daughter had a serious drug problem.
“The student in question argued that, although she needed some help, her problem was not substance abuse,” Dr. Kadison said. “From my standpoint, the problem was not who’s right and who’s wrong or what’s the diagnosis, but whether she is getting the right help.”
The No Child Left Behind Act is intended to help K-12 schools meet educational standards and grow academically.
However, according to Charles Read, dean of the UW-Madison School of Education, who spoke to UW-Madison students and Madison-area residents Monday night, the act is not up to standards and has experienced growing pains.
In anticipation of the upcoming Halloween weekend, the Madison Police Department is stressing personal responsibility and expects UW-Madison students to set the tone for a safe evening, according to Police Chief Noble Wray.
“It is really up to those that are attending this event to make sure it is a safe event,” he said during a press conference Monday with Mayor Dave Cieslewicz, Special Assistant to the Chancellor Lamarr Billups and Associated Students of Madison Halloween Committee Chair Kristina Mueller.
UW Athletic Communications announced yesterday afternoon that junior guard Maurice “Boo” Wade would be taking an indefinite leave of absence from basketball, effective immediately. The resolution was made in light of discussions between Wade and Head Coach Bo Ryan last week.
According to a police report, crimes in the central district of Madison, which encompasses the campus area, increased significantly in the past three years.
The city of Madison is ready for the Halloween ball to roll, thanks to efforts by the police department, city officials, the University of Wisconsin, Associated Students of Madison and downtown businesses.
For years, college ranking systems such as the U.S. News and World Report�s have informed students and families about the academic aspects of choice universities.
University of Wisconsin professor Nietzchka Keene, a filmmaker and member of the Communication Arts Department, passed away Wednesday from complications with cancer.
Following the suspension of the men�s basketball student ticket distribution due to a computer glitch discovered in the online applications, the University of Wisconsin Athletic Department announced it will retry the lottery.
Madison is framed, and often defined by, its lakes.
Whether it means gazing across the 9.842 acres of Lake Mendota from the Union Terrace, fishing in Lake Monona from the bike path or swimming in Lake Wingra, the lakes make the city a unique confluence of water and land. As a city built on an isthmus, Madison’s lakes, as part of the Yahara Lake chain, can be, simultaneously, a wonder to behold and a threat to its health.
John Magnuson, professor emeritus of zoology, has an office in the limnology laboratory overlooking Lake Mendota. He sees the lakes as a source of the city’s allure and their condition as a consequence of that allure.
UW-Madison senior Megan Lipke registered to vote when approached by a volunteer armed with a clipboard on State Street nearly two months ago.
But after waiting in line for more than 30 minutes to vote at the city clerk’s office, she was told there was no record of her registration anywhere.
UW-Madison students waiting in line outside the Kohl Center for men’s basketball season tickets were sent home Friday afternoon when Athletic Department officials discovered 625 electronic applications submitted online by UW-Madison students were not processed by the computer ticketing system.
Some college professors across the country are making special efforts to get students ââ?¬â? who are expected to vote in record numbers this election year ââ?¬â? to the polls Nov. 2.
Nationwide college tuition is on the rise again, climbing nearly 11 percent this year at four-year public institutions, according to an annual survey by the College Board.
For 24 University of Wisconsin students, their ââ?¬Å?campingââ?¬Â experience at the Kohl Center came to a lucky end Oct. 29.
The 2004-05 men�s basketball student ticket lottery was suspended Friday afternoon after University of Wisconsin athletic department officials learned that 625 students who submitted electronic applications were not included in the selection process.
A town-hall style meeting, which
Every student complains about his or her classes at one point. Now, thanks to the Provost’s Office, a Student Focus Group series allows students to express concerns directly to UW-Madison administrators.
Working as an intimate forum to gauge students’ experiences, the Student Focus Group series commenced Thursday at Memorial Union.
In an effort to allow students to speak openly about their experiences with the campus climate at the University of Wisconsin, Associate Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs Bernice Durand and Assistant to the Provost Mo Noonan Bischof held the first of five open-forum-style meetings Thursday night.
Dan Ginsburg is a die-hard fan of the University of Wisconsin men�s basketball team.
He�s traveled to away games. He hasn�t missed a home game in the last four seasons. And he�s even camped out for more than five weeks to grab the best seats in the Kohl Center.
On the weekend of Oct. 31, Madison will be anything but ordinary. However, the city is doing everything in its power to make sure that just because the weekend will not be normal, it does not mean it has to be dangerous.
Members of the Madison Police Department met with State Street bar and restaurant owners at the Nitty Gritty, 223 N. Frances St., Tuesday to relate their overall safety plan for this year’s Halloween celebration.
Leaders in the Wisconsin community gathered to address the need to keep UW System alumni in state after graduation and widen the positive domestic reputation of UW-Madison in a forum held Wednesday night at the Kohl Center.
The forum, titled “Educational Assets: Strengthening Wisconsin’s Economy,” included UW-Madison Chancellor John Wiley and UW System President Kevin Reilly.
Professors at UW-Madison secure important federal research grants, write textbooks and produce original studies that generate revenue for the state. Part of what makes the UW-Madison campus unique and esteemed nationwide is its reputation as a top-tier research university with a top-tier teaching staff.
Despite a decade-long movement to make science the ââ?¬Å?fourth Rââ?¬Â in education nationwide, a recently released survey by the Bayer Corporation found science still remains ââ?¬Å?a second-tier subject,ââ?¬Â according to a release.
The Bayer Corporation seeks to
Madison city officials have spent the last year planning a Halloween weekend they hope will be free of rioters. A group of downtown bar owners and Madison police met Wednesday to discuss these new and improved Halloween plans, which include police officers on horseback, low-key music and increased police and bar employee staffing.
A panel of professionals met Wednesday at the Kohl Center to discuss the marketing of Wisconsin�s educational assets.
Among those on the panel were University of Wisconsin Chancellor John Wiley, Wisconsin Alumni Association President Paula Bonner and Senior Partner for Venture Investors LLC John Neis.
As construction on the University of Wisconsin�s new residential halls begins and landlord Steve Brown prepares to sell his private dorms in the coming weeks, the UW campus is set to usher in the start of a number of changes that could forever alter student housing in Madison.
Steve Brown�s decision to sell his five private residence halls could be largely prompted by the University of Wisconsin�s plans to expand the number of campus luxury dorms, according to several city of Madison and UW officials.
The city of Madison may still be without a police chief, but city and University of Wisconsin officials are doing everything they can to prep for Halloween madness.
While University of Wisconsin students go through the daily routine of classes, midterms and partying, one man sits atop Bascom Hill who is responsible for leading an institution of more than 40,000 people. Although UW Chancellor John Wiley works in an expansive office, wears a suit and is rarely seen by most students, he remains passionate about issues that affect students on a daily basis.
A controversial suicide prevention program at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign has sparked discussion across college campuses nationwide.
The University of Wisconsin is one of seven sites in the country selected for a grant award from the National Institutes of Health to advance medical training and research. The $14 million three-to-five year grant will fund the Training and Education to Advance Multidisciplinary Research, or TEAM, program.
Itââ?¬â?¢s official ââ?¬â? most University of Wisconsin students will have to forego flu vaccinations this year.
The Madison City Council unanimously approved the use of outdoor lighting during Halloween, a voter outreach competition between city districts and suspended Jin�s Chicken and Fish license for four weeks with four months of additional conditions.
In an effort to increase campus safety and prevent possible terrorist attacks, the University of Wisconsin has shifted construction goals from just visual and practical values to include security measures.
As trees across the northern United States turn gold and crimson, scientists are debating exactly what those colors are for.
UW System Board of Regents hosted a listening session at UW-Eau Claire Monday to discuss issues ranging from tuition cost to recruitment of quality staff members as well as the important role UW campuses provide in helping to create a thriving Wisconsin state economy.
Chalking sidewalks on campus is an essential activity for many student organizations to raise campus awareness, but few groups realize the possible danger for those chalking late at night.
Last Tuesday, Oct. 12, a student chalking with Students for Feingold was physically attacked at about 10:30 p.m.
