Category: Campus life

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.

Leading Women for Tomorrow is an international, nonprofit, nonpartisan organization that has been brought to the university by Rachel Sweet, the recently appointed president of the UW chapter.

Noted: Among them was Marion Cranefield, one of the first Madison men killed in World War I. Cranefield was a University of Wisconsin-Madison junior when he joined the Army. He had tried to enlist the previous year to take part in the U.S. Army’s pursuit of Pancho Villa but was turned down because he was too thin. He wrote home from France, telling his family “it’s a wonderful country and worth dying for.”

Thousands of miles from his hometown, Thousand Oaks, CA, UW-Madison freshman Matthew Mitnick said his nightmare began Wednesday night. He learned a gunman opened fire on a bar in his hometown.

Though it is often used as a concept in TV shows, movies, science fiction books and pop culture, Peter Vranas, a University of Wisconsin philosophy professor, took the topic seriously. He wondered how time travel should be defined and what would have to be true for it to exist.

The panel discussed some of the major cultural differences between campus life and life on a reservation, and the difficulties many students face bridging these differences.

Communications Specialist Xai Xiong said that of the eight total polling locations on campus, the voter turnout totaled 87 percent of those eligible to vote at these wards. Additionally, throughout the city of Madison, the pre-registered voter turnout totaled 92.9 percent.

Standing on a skateboard for the first time in her life, Bing Sun radiates joy. She’s taking it slow as she coasts down State Street, but it’s still thrilling. “When I was young, this was not so popular,” says Sun, a native of China and a visiting scholar at UW-Madison. “Then I got married, had a daughter — I had no time to play.”

The key to Tuesday’s stunning Democratic upset of Wisconsin’s eight-year Republican lock on state government came from a blue tsunami in Wisconsin’s largest counties and possibly a smaller wave on college campuses around the state.

Group chose not to recommend building high-rise on plot of land across from Psychology Building.

Being at South Texas Family Residential Center offered insight into immigration system in ways media hadn’t covered, panelists said.

Standing on a skateboard for the first time in her life, Bing Sun radiates joy. She’s taking it slow as she coasts down State Street, but it’s still thrilling. “When I was young, this was not so popular,” says Sun, a native of China and a visiting scholar at UW-Madison. “Then I got married, had a daughter — I had no time to play.”

After releasing his new book, Burt Folsom discusses New Deal with fresh perspective.

At exactly 6 p.m. on Tuesday, Feb. 16, 1943, Mildred Harnack (née Fish), Milwaukee native, UW-Madison alum and former UW-Milwaukee instructor, was beheaded.

NPR journalist David Folkenflik said journalists should not simply mirror what people in authority say.

The LG/LGBT/LGBTQ/LGBTQIA/ LGBTTQQIAAP+ community has a fair number of initialisms which encapsulate itself.

There’s been a push to get everyone to the polls, but there’s been an even bigger push to get younger voters there.

Meredith McGlone, Director of News & Media Relations, said as of about 2 p.m., the university had issued approximately 500 photo ID cards on Election Day to students who needed them to vote. She added that that figure was on top of the near 8,000 ID cards issued previously. Final tallies are expected on Wednesday.

Joe Lalli is helping 20 patients at UW Hospital who ordinarily wouldn’t be able to get to the polls vote in the midterm election.

The Madison Poll Party event was organized by UW Hillel staff to encourage students to get out and vote, but most importantly, to remind people to take a breath on U.S. Election Day and during the voting process, according to Lizzy Wallis, the Springboard Social Justice Fellow at UW Hillel.

Though turnout rates have historically been lower during midterm elections, college students at the University of Wisconsin-Madison came out to vote and take in Tuesday’s election results at higher numbers than previous midterms.

NextGen focused on transforming youth energy into political engagement.

UW-Madison students will host a food drive to help stock a local food pantry weeks before the Thanksgiving holiday.

The Student Services Finance Committee voted to eliminate salaries for Grant Allocation Committee members while granting Associated Students of Madison the rest of their requested $1,272,839.70 budget in its meeting Monday night.

UW-Madison’s Native November Planning Leadership, composed of organizations like American Indian Science and Engineering Society and the Gender and Sexuality Campus Center, has collaborated to organize a series of events to celebrate Native American Heritage Month.

Noted: Separately, the leaders of Princeton University, the University of Wisconsin and Rutgers University wrote a letter to DeVos expressing their “deep concern” that the government might drop civil rights protections under Title IX for transgender students.

On Nov. 1, University President Christopher L. Eisgruber, Rutgers President Robert L. Barchi, and University of Wisconsin-Madison Chancellor Rebecca Blank sent a letter to Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos in support of legal protections for transgender individuals.

2015 survey found 27.6 percent of female undergraduate students had been sexually assaulted since attending UW.

As part of 2018 Diversity Forum, experts discussed progress, restrictions.

“It’s sort of strange to be paying for the ability to work,” said Representative Ruben Moreno as the Teaching Assistants’ Association returned to work with the 25th session to halt the mandatory segregated fees policy.

Milwaukee Brewers founder and University of Wisconsin-Madison alum Bud Selig knows a lot about overcoming obstacles, staying the course and managing disappointment.

Organizers of the forum say Wednesday’s discussion comes at a critically important time because of how divided our nation has become on all topics.

Experts reacted to studies showing U.S. will be ’minority white’ by 2045.

Internal budget saw 7 percent reduction from last year.

He graduated from UW-Madison in 1956 with a bachelor’s degree in American history and political science. He currently co-teaches an upper-level history course called Baseball and Society Since WWII.

“I love Madison and I love the university,” Selig said in a UW press release. “Those were four of the best years of my life. I could not be more thrilled and honored to accept this invitation.”