Category: Campus life

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.

This time will be different. That’s the hope of politically active students on the University of Wisconsin–Madison campus in advance of the Nov. 6 midterm election. Wisconsin was one of three states in the country where student turnout was down for the 2016 presidential election.

Twelve University of Wisconsin-Madison Law School professors signed a nationwide petition asking the United States Senate not to confirm Judge Brett Kavanaugh into the Supreme Court.

MADISON, Wis. – 18 University of Wisconsin-Madison Law School professors signed a nationwide petition asking the United States Senate not to confirm Judge Brett Kavanaugh into the Supreme Court.

As The Round Table previously reported, Dr. Christina Klawitter’98, who had served as Beloit College’s Dean of Students since 2011, has accepted a position as Associate Dean for Student Academic Affairs for the School of Education at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Gabbie Taschwer, a University of Wisconsin–Madison senior, along with two fellow members of the 2018 Water Ski Show Team became the first female trio ever to perform a triple helicopter spin in competition.

Black Lives Matter sign legislation, ’Ice Cream for All’ postponed for rewrite.

Conservative UW-Madison Student Council representatives said former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin didn’t speak for them when she published an article on her website earlier this month criticizing the Associated Students of Madison for crafting legislation meant to make Babcock Ice Cream more inclusive.

Ranked: UW: “Growing up in the state, I worried that I was too close to home and would be unable to make new friends or find new, exciting opportunities if I went to the University of Wisconsin.

ASM members raised concerns regarding active participation of MSA members.

In 1896, the first women earned undergraduate degrees from UW-Madison. Now, 150 years later, Inside UW is celebrating the anniversary with a series that promotes the accomplishments of women associated with the university.

A $4.5 million project to replace the 40-year-old pier system will revamp the marina, improving the sailing experience for the more than 1,000 students, staff and community members who make up the Hoofer Sailing Club, according to Wisconsin Union officials.

Hundreds gathered at the Kohl Center Saturday evening to celebrate the campaign’s end at the Bucky on Parade Finale, and they came to bid on 21 of the statues in a live auction benefiting the non-profits.

There was a wrap-up part for Bucky on Parade after months of seeing them around Dane County. But don’t worry, you’ll see some of them again.

With all of her necessary documentation, University of Wisconsin-Madison student Brooke Evans arrived at her polling place on Nov. 8, 2016, for the presidential election. But when poll workers examined her mailing address under the guidelines of the Wisconsin voter ID law enacted in 2015, the philosophy major initially was barred from voting due to confusion over her address.

Kavanaugh trial reflective of society’s overall treatment of sexual assault survivors, speaker says.

Bonobos, an online retailer of men’s clothing, will set up a mobile shop Oct. 3 to Oct. 6 at Union South on the campus of UW-Madison.

A new initiative meant to enhance the faculty recruitment process by attracting staff from underrepresented populations was introduced at the Faculty of Color reception Tuesday.

Will a new wave of eligible college voters line up at the polls this voting season? Studies show that may be unlikely.

Since 1919, Wisconsin Hoofers— one of UW-Madison’s oldest and largest student organizations — has promoted outdoor recreation to not only the campus community but also the city at large.

Most important decision a woman makes is who they marry, speaker says.

Retired professor says instructors have right to set course structure, while students also entitled to question material.

Journalists across the country — especially student journalists — are struggling. But at UW, it’s students and their untold stories who have the most to lose.

UW-Madison celebrated a 3.8 percent increase in enrollment in the largest class the university has ever seen.

The University of Wisconsin-Madison’s 2018 freshman class is the largest that the school has ever seen, officials said Monday.

For National Voter Registration Day Tuesday, volunteers are set up around UW-Madison to help students register to vote for the November 6 election.

The garage will replace one of the campus’ largest existing surface lots and provide a net 120 spaces to campus, according to planning documents provided to the city. It will offset parking spaces lost from construction of the new Meat Science and Muscle Biology building and the School of Veterinary Medicine addition.

Sign came down during cleaning, hasn’t been put back up.

UW-Madison engineering students are continuing to help the women of a Kenyan village with an invention they initially developed last year that allows the women to carry water on their backs .

The fate of the Black Lives Matter sign that hung in the Associated Students of Madison office window until last summer is uncertain as the council debates its suitability on the prominent location.

As students break in the new academic year and legislation gains momentum, concern to remain neutral is always in the back of Student Services Finance Committee representatives’ minds.

An “Ice Cream for All” proposal from the Associated Students of Madison is calling the use of beef gelatin in most Babcock Ice Cream flavors a “gross act of discrimination.” The proposal writes that Babcock ice cream is a part of the Wisconsin experience and “all badgers, regardless of dietary restriction should have the freedom to enjoy the merchandises of university-related food producers.”

The Student Services Finance Committee met Monday, when they decided to fund Atheists, Humanists and Agnostics for the next two fiscal years.

The sweet treat bucks the university’s commitment to inclusivity by relying on an ingredient that effectively discriminates against certain faiths and lifestyles, said Yogev Ben-Yitschak, vice chairman of the Associated Students of Madison.

A vote on a bill that would require Babcock Dairy remove beef gelatin from all its ice cream flavors in an effort to be more inclusive to students with dietary and religious restrictions has been postponed, after having been originally scheduled the same night as Yom Kippur, the holiest day of the year for Jews.