Category: Campus life

Noted: One of the CEOs on this year’s list, Jeffrey Sprecher, the CEO of Intercontinental Exchange, which owns the New York Stock Exchange, holds both an MBA and an engineering degree but said in a video posted on Facebook by his alma mater, University of Wisconsin, that he’s never had a job that relates to his chemical engineering degree. Still, he said, it “taught me about problem-solving, and complex systems and the way things relate to each other, and business is really just that.”

The Freakfest Music Festival is for everyone, say its organizers. But the primary demographic has typically been the college-aged crowd — after all, the one-night festival that takes over State Street every Halloween made its debut as an antidote to raucous college partying that had traditionally run rampant downtown.

Partisanship, informed voters identified as integral factors in 2018’s election.

Kleefisch expressed support in covering preexisting conditions and a repeal of the Affordable Care Act.

With that motivation and skill on her side, Gray took a chance at auditioning for the UW Marching Band, hoping she’d find a special community within a school that has nearly 44,000 students.

If you’re a student at University of Wisconsin-Madison, university officials and your fellow students really want you to vote. And to make sure you do, they’re launching a week of voting events to make it easy.

Political science professor David Canon said young people usually vote in low numbers. “Eighteen to 34-year-olds vote at a rate of about half as much as say 50 to 60-year-olds and in recent elections, especially the last midterm elections, between about a sixth and a fifth of all young people, millennials, ended up voting,” Canon said.

Voter turnout on campus decreased in 2016.

UW senior Heidi Knoche said she attended the discussion because she views it as her social responsibility to learn about the perspectives of those outside of her community, particularly regarding domestic violence.

University of Wisconsin scholars and experts discussed immigration, citizenship and the economy in a panel called “What Makes America Great? Immigration, Citizenship and the Wisconsin Economy” at the Wisconsin Historical Society Monday.

The panel discussed how immigrants are a necessity to the Wisconsin workforce, especially in the dairy industry. In a market where farm laborers used to be paid $12-13 an hour, farms themselves are not making a great enough profit to be able to pay workers a fair amount, causing a labor shortage that immigrants are filling.

The tradition dates back to 1979, when a group of students thought it would be funny to fill the Bascom Hill with pink plastic flamingos.

A new organization on the UW-Madison campus is connecting people in costume with chances to put a smile on a kid’s face.

“It’s not only fun, but it gives everyone a chance to think about how historical figures, musicians, or authors are still with us in some ways,” Emily Auerbach, director of the UW Odyssey Project, tells Madison365. “Last year, we had Socrates walking around … you never know who might just show up.”

Langdon Street will be the place to be for UW-Madison homecoming revelers on Friday, and will not be the place to be for motorists.

Associated Students of Madison ignited concerns of their ability to maintain an active role on campus after passing a negligible amount of legislation after seven weeks in session.

Gordon switched from sending trash to the UW-Madison agricultural research station to a local digester in Middleton.

A trio of Wisconsin attorneys, including two whose appearance in the first season of “Making a Murderer” launched them to international stardom, have started a nonprofit aimed at improving forensic science.

A new beer is being brewed by the Wisconsin Brewing Company, Heineken and UW-Madison that has a recipe with roots in our very own back yard.

She will discuss the changing culture of higher education and effective techniques for recruiting and retaining students and faculty from underrepresented communities in “Power in Numbers: Data-driven decision making for inclusive education.”

ASM staff will receive 4 percent increase in wages due to campus-wide pay adjustment provided by UW.

UW-Madison’s student government backed off a controversial resolution that called for campaigning against the university’s use of beef gelatin in Babcock ice cream after working with university administrators to bring awareness to the ingredient’s use in the official campus ice cream.

11,000 student accounts have been activated on Handshake, along with almost 9,000 employer accounts.

Professor Christy Clark-Pujara discusses how historical context shapes modern racial attitudes.

Respect for group inclusivity an important aspect, Staskunas said.

Native American student organization received a 20 percent budget increase.

Homecoming week at UW-Madison is a time-honored tradition filled with student and community activities that highlight what it means to be a badger.

It’s officially homecoming week at UW-Madison!

An Acapella Showcase kicked off the week of celebration Sunday night, after the Red Tutu Trot with Cardiac on Campus earlier in the day.

But the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reporter whose book is being read all over the UW-Madison campus this year as the community Go Big Read selection, has seen some positive signs, at least in terms of public awareness.

In light of National Coming Out Day, UW-Madison students reflect on their coming out experience, describing their identities as journies.

Multi-factor authentication process will be implemented at UW-Madison in order to create a safer online experience for students and staff.

The proposed parking structure on Linden Drive could increase parking accessibility for UW-Madison’s campus visitors.

A 600-stall garage could replace one of the last large surface lots on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus and add needed visitor parking spaces under a proposal from the university.

The University of Wisconsin is scheduled to build a new chemistry building featuring more organic chemistry labs and rooms adjacent to laboratories where students can work with data.

UW-Madison released its 2018 TV spot during Saturday’s football game, featuring themes of challenge and achievement.

Campus activists are calling on the Gender and Women’s study program to change the name of its class “Women and Their Bodies in Health and Disease,” arguing that the name excludes and marginalizes trans and nonbinary students.