Category: Campus life

Whatever reasons drive someone in the pursuit of higher education, former Major League Baseball Commissioner Allan “Bud” Selig urged UW-Madison graduates Sunday to “dream big dreams, limitless dreams, because only then can you reach your full potential.”

A developer has re-submitted a previously rejected proposal for a 12-story student apartment near the UW-Madison campus. And on the west side of town, neighbors are pushing back against an affordable housing development that city staff is recommending for approval.

Student speaker Jamie Dawson told her fellow graduates of her family’s struggles in her early life, when she and her mother spent time living with family. Like Selig, she never thought she would be where she is today.

A UW-Madison student’s three-year cultivation of a campuswide mental health and suicide prevention awareness campaign is best seen by glancing at students’ backpacks.

He has authorized students to bring in controversial conservative figures, such as commentator Katie Pavlich, when other faculty would not.

Student Council also heard a presentation given by Jocelyn Milner, vice provost of Academic Affairs and director of Academic Planning and Institutional Research, about the Higher Learning Commission Accreditation Project for March 2019.

In a majority liberal university, it’s easy for students to lose touch with their political views, commentator says.

Though he won’t be competing directly against star performers, Jim Leary, a UW-Madison professor emeritus of folklore and Scandinavian Studies, was nominated for his second Grammy, this time for writing the album notes for “Alpine Dreaming: The Helvetia Records Story, 1920-1924,” an album of folk tunes recorded by a Wisconsin label.

From crime to politics and everything in between, there has never been a dull moment of reporting this semester.

Don Stanley started teaching a course at the University of Wisconsin-Madison about podcasting, blogging and social media in 2008. That’s eons in social media years. It also dates back to a time when brands like Facebook and Twitter were more associated with fun and community than identity theft and fake news.

From the Crazylegs Classic race to Maxwell Street Days, Downtown Madison is a magnet for events. But a city staff proposal could force many popular ones to change starting times, routes or days and perhaps deter new ones.

Housing Director Jeff Novak said cost of living is increasing to compensate for rising operational costs.

For the last 25 years, the Center for Educational Opportunity has served the UW-Madison community. This Friday, an event will be held to honor the accomplishments of the program and it’s students.

Concerns of future enrollment growth accomodations paved the way for discussion on housing accessibility and affordability.

The number of international graduate students’ enrollment at UW-Madison is significantly higher than the national average — it was close to 2,703 in Fall 2017, nearly half as many as the 4,791 American students, according to UW-Madison’s Office of the Registrar.

“This is an opportunity where I get to go back home to my community and serve the people of our community and do something really special for them,” said Zach Schranm, Marine and UWPD Security Officer.

“I’m terrified alcohol would take my life away,” Jonah Beleckis wrote in an op-ed when he was a senior at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, which is a notorious party school. “Addiction is in my blood. It etches a death threat in my mirror every Friday night, warning me what might come.”

For the past several months, a group of 24 freshman engineering students at the University of Wisconsin-Madison have been building a sensory playhouse for an 11-year-old girl named Laura who has severe disabilities.

Madison streets around the construction site for the UW-Madison Chemistry Building project are in lane closure and street closing mode, and some will be until spring.

Construction on the University of Wisconsin Madison’s Chemistry Building will continue through 2021, causing various types of lane closures throughout the project, according to city officials.

The Student Services Finance Committee approved the budgets of Wisconsin Association of Black Men and Sex Out Loud Monday evening.

They challenged the nine departments within the Division of Student Life to a friendly competition aimed at increasing donations to the Open Seat Food Pantry.

UW-Madison’s Lowell Center purchased the “Ringo” Bucky statue by Kari Fisher from this summer’s Bucky on Parade event and held a location unveiling event Friday with its namesake, former Badgers men’s hockey player Rob Andringa. Lance Baldus and Matt Vieth from the Lowell Center and Andringa speak.

The Mercile J. Lee Scholars Program will now oversee the two scholarship programs Lee founded over 30 years ago: Chancellor’s and Powers-Knapp scholarship programs.

According to the release, this move comes after the Wisconsin Division of Student Life conducted investigations over several months into various allegation which resulted in numerous unsubstantiated findings against the Fraternity.

Two UW-Madison professors have been elected as fellows to the American Association for the Advancement of Science.

Senior Jamie Dawson was selected by senior class officers.

Students conversed about issues of identity, tradition, mental health

UW spokesperson Meredith McGlone said the university is taking steps to improve campus climate for Native students and other underrepresented groups. Recently, the university launched the Elders-in-Residence program, which brings Native community leaders to campus.

The All Ways Forward fundraising campaign at UW-Madison received a significant boost Monday, with alumni John and Anne Oros committing $10 million.

A coalition of University of Wisconsin campus organizations will hold a rally to show solidarity with and raise money for asylum seekers at the southern border, some of whom were assaulted with tear gas by border patrol officers Sunday.

UW professor Finn Enke, who specializes in the history of gender and sexuality, believes the effects of the memo can already be observed.

When student organizations underspend their yearly budgets, those extra funds wind up in SSFC’s reserve. Over the years, the reserve has grown substantially. “The reserve funds are excessive,” SSFC Chair Jeremy Swanson said.

Over the years, over the decades, Mike Leckrone has said he would know when it was time to retire.

Mike Leckrone reflects on his 50 years as the director of the UW bands.

He spoke to the band members after the game as fans looked on as some held signs with hearts on them.

The 82-year-old estimates he’s worked with close to 3,500 students in his career and said that it’s because of the students that the job never got old.

It was a bitter sweet Saturday for Badger fans of all ages, as UW Marching Band Director Mike Leckrone led the band for the final time at Camp Randal Stadium after 50 years a top the ladder.

The program covers four years at UW’s flagship university and is funded through private gifts, not taxpayer dollars.

The group also employed its share of gimmicks. In August, organizers brought puppies to the UW-Madison campus to encourage students to register to vote. A few days before the election, a giraffe-shaped bounce house graced the UW-Madison campus to encourage early voting.

This Saturday’s game vs. Minnesota will be the last time Leckrone leads the UW Marching Band at Camp Randall. One last “run-on”, half-time show, and one last “Fifth Quarter”.

While a student has the right to protest a speaker, a student never has the right to disrupt a speaker, Schweber said. It is “the obligation of the university” to stop a student from disrupting a speaker.

Schweber opened his speech by explaining the difference between free speech and academic freedom. He explained academic freedom as the ability of a university to guide its own educational mission. Free speech and academic freedom are opposing concepts because of that discretion, and the two can often be confusing for people to understand, Schweber said.

Claims against UW professor were substantiated in university investigation.

A UW-Madison professor who students and staff accused of inappropriately touching, staring and commenting in a pattern of sexual harassment going back decades retired in May amid a university investigation into his behavior.

Noted: Voting in Madison and Milwaukee was supported by a 28 percent increase in turnout from the 2014 election on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus and a 43 percent increase on UW-Milwaukee’s campus. NextGen America, a liberal group that spent $2.8 million in Wisconsin to boost Democratic turnout among millennials, reported between 75 percent and 80 percent of the vote share on the campuses went to Evers.

The director said “poor countries are suffering, but it is wealthy countries that are causing the problem.”

The professor said monuments are not just distant history, but a challenge for America to learn history, improve.

University of Wisconsin’s Associated Students of Madison approved their internal budget for fiscal year 2020 Wednesday, which included amendments within the Grant Allocation Committee and changes to the budget for recruitment drives.

Elder-in-residence Ada Deer also welcomed to campus.