Author: Kelly Tyrrell

As UW-Madison students prepare for their final week of the semester, its also Move Out Week for students in the dorms.

Student parents at the University of Wisconsin have access to programs and services to help them balance the challenges of parenthood with their academic endeavors, but some student parents have said they have trouble at the school.

Late next week, thousands of seniors will graduate from UW-Madison. But for Serra Crawford, this is an especially big triumph as she walks across stage to receive her diploma at only 16 years old.

Students from a UW-Madison program designed to kick-start higher education for economically disadvantaged adults gathered at the Memorial Union Wednesday to celebrate their graduation with a full room of family and friends.

City officials met with Mayor Paul Soglin at a closed meeting Wednesday to determine how the results of this year?s Mifflin Street Block Party will affect the event in the future.

After receiving pressure from student representatives at the public forum held last week to discuss proposed changes to the Madison bus system, Madison Metro Transit System opened up its second meeting Wednesday night to student input.

After University of Wisconsin System students testified on both advisory boards and tuition increases, a special task force recommended all institutions in the UW System develop advisory boards with Board of Regents members.

President Barack Obama talked to students and politicians across the country, including Mayor Paul Soglin and Associated Students of Madison leaders, about the importance of managing federal student loan interest rates on a White House conference call Monday.

In the weeks leading up to former Yahoo! CEO Carol Bartz?s speech at commencement, senior class officials and the university have disagreed over the process for selecting future commencement speakers.

This year?s block party resulted in fewer violent crimes this year, but more arrests, according to a report from MPD after the event.

Although approximately 20,000 fewer people attended the Mifflin Street Block Party this year than last, arrests were over ten times as common, according to the Madison Police Department.

During the past year, University of Wisconsin System President Kevin Reilly has led the UW System in the face of $300 million of funding cuts and budgetary lapses. The Badger Herald sat down with Reilly to discuss the impact of these trends and possible solutions being offered. Here are the highlights in part two of a two-part series.

Mixed feelings over this year?s Mifflin Street Block Party stemmed from increased arrests and stricter rules, but an overall safer atmosphere.

Students and other members of the UW-Madison community told officials Thursday they have concerns with proposed cuts to the campus bus services.

Given the trend of burglaries increasing at the end of the academic year, police in Madison?s southern district are reaching out to residents in student-heavy areas, telling them to take extra precautions against theft.

Throughout its history of more than 40 years, the Mifflin Street Block Party has been considered a Madison tradition by many, but now others are calling for a drastic change to the event?s stigma.

The time has come for the much awaited and much debated 2012 Mifflin Street Block Party, when students and residents from throughout the region will be met with a very different atmosphere than in previous years.

A week after creating a YouTube video she admitted was ?disastrous,? Dean of Students Lori Berquam resorted to her usual mass e-mail to warn students of the dangers associated with the Mifflin Street Block Party.

Many students who are Mifflin residents signed a protection plan with police at the last Mifflin Street Block Party information meeting Wednesday.

As part of a newly launched scholarship initiative, one student could win up to $3,000 for creating a plan to solve a problem on the University of Wisconsin campus.

Madison police are working to prevent a porch collapse at this years Mifflin Street Block Party.

Starting next fall, moped users will only be able to park in designated campus lots, and moped permit prices will increase.

UW alumna and former Yahoo! CEO Carol Bartz will return to Madison to deliver the address at the university?s commencement ceremonies May 19 and 20.

City officials are inviting students and Mifflin residents to an informational meeting on the upcoming Mifflin Street Block Party where residents can register their house parties with police.

Last June, senior Danez Smith was walking down Langdon Street when a hanging figure caught his eye.

Although newly passed legislation surrounding voter ID requirements is tied up in court, college students may still face a number of other obstacles while heading to the polls for the upcoming recall elections. 

The UW-Madison Police Department is reporting an increase in thefts of bicycles on campus.The UWPD is asking you to be aware of suspicious activity and report the behavior to police.

A report from a University of Wisconsin faculty committee has recommended the university eliminate the Division of International Studies? administrative function. 

The University of Wisconsin will bring in world-renowned astrophysicist and best-selling author Neil deGrasse Tyson as the keynote speaker for its first-ever Senior Day for graduates next Thursday.