Author: Kelly Tyrrell

With criminal activity looming over the opening weeks of the school year, blue light emergency poles on campus could become life-saving resources.

Sports Illustrated has decided to stop by Madison for Halloween this year, much to the horror of some local business owners and city officials.

In light of recent attacks on campus and sexual assaults over the summer, various organizations are putting on a sexual assault awareness campaign, ââ?¬Å?Locks and Bagels,ââ?¬Â today in Library Mall.

University Health Services, the Tenant Resource Center, University of Wisconsin SAFE Nighttime services, the Apartment Association of South Central Wisconsin and Dane County Government are involved in the projec

Due to five incidents of downtown criminal activity last weekend, Madison police are urging students and citizens to play it safe.

Between midnight Sept. 17 and close to 3:30 a.m. Sept. 18, three batteries, a strong-arm robbery and an assault and robbery occurred within the State Street area.

Wisconsin Lt. Gov. Barbara Lawton spoke Tuesday night at the UW-Madison College Democrats meeting in Ingraham Hall, touting the importance of the youth vote at UW-Madison.

“We are the old people and we know that this is the most important election of our lifetime,” Lawton said.

U.S. Sen. Russ Feingold, D-Wis., made his case for re-election to UW-Madison students Friday afternoon with a rally at Library Mall. Speaking to hundreds of student supporters, Feingold emphasized the right choices he made during his career and his efforts to combat the wrong choices.

U.S. Sen. Russ Feingold pulled double duty Friday, promoting both the Kerry-Edwards campaign and touting his own resume for his senatorial battle with Tim Michels during a rally on Library Mall.

UW-Madison freshman Andy Gordon is no stranger to political rallies. His mother dragged him to a Clinton rally in Green Bay when he was eight years old.

“I was whining the whole time. I didn’t understand what it was all about,” he said, waiting to board a shuttle bus to the rally John Kerry held Wednesday. “But it was still really cool.”

The segregated-fee-funded University Health Services sees more visits from females than from males, and most of those appointments relate to general women�s health issues, according to the director of University Health.

The Multicultural Student Coalition is sponsoring its fifth-annual Multicultural Orientation Networking Empowerment (M-ONE) program in hopes of exposing University of Wisconsin students to the many different cultural backgrounds on campus.

M-ONE offers new students the

The University of Wisconsin is again covering the costs of the federally mandated Student and Exchange Visitor Information System this year rather than pushing the fee solely onto international students.

Phillip Certain left a giant void when he stepped down in August after serving 11 years as dean of the College of Letters and Science. As the University of Wisconsin�s longest-serving dean, Certain oversaw a college composed of more students than many universities.

Gary Sandefur replaces Certain as the new dean of the largest college at UW, but he is hardly new to the university.

An enthusiastic crowd of students and other Madison residents filled the Wisconsin Union Theater to near capacity Wednesday evening to hear independent presidential candidate Ralph Nader address the university community.

University of Wisconsin students, excited to hear presidential hopeful John Kerry speak in their own backyard on Capitol Square, instead had to make due with late buses hauling them to a changed venue miles away. If � that is � they decided to make the trip at all.

Forced inside by inclement weather, Democratic presidential nominee John Kerry unleashed a storm of his own Wednesday, directing a torrent of criticism at President George W. Bush during a rally at the Alliant Energy Center.

The vast number of foreign languages available for study at UW-Madison can be daunting for some students, which is why the Division of International Studies recently formed the Language Institute.

Members of the Madison Police Department, city officials and various university departments met Tuesday to discuss the current handling of alcohol-related problems on and around campus. They also discussed changes in policy to be implemented before this Halloween.

Saturday marked the third anniversary of the terrorist attacks that transformed security policies in America, and many universities nationwide have begun to reassess what role security should play on campuses today.

Dean of International Studies Gilles Bousquet and a panel of professors met Monday at the Memorial Union to speak to students and the general public about this new responsibility: To redefine security and heighten awareness of the American university’s role in a broad global community.

UW-Madison student Anthony Gallagher was charged in Dane County Circuit Court Monday with obstructing an officer following a police investigation since April 2003. Police found he and an individual identified as Nate Grede had been placing fake parking tickets on windshields and collecting payments for approximately six weeks.

Riot gear and resting officers will replace drunken revelers in the rooms of University Inn, 441 N. Frances St., this Halloween as the building will be the center of Madison Police Department’s effort to prevent a third straight riot at the annual bash.

The downtown police headquarters is one of a host of changes discussed Monday at a meeting of the Halloween Task Force.

Tuesday night was the season premiere of “The Real World: Philadelphia.” The Daily Cardinal’s Amanda Becker watched the premiere with UW-Madison senior Landon, [MTV does not want his last name to be used] who is in this season’s cast. Before the show aired, Becker interviewed him about his experiences on “The Real World” and found out how seven strangers stopped being polite and started being real.