Category: Campus life

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.

The Badger Band Alumni Association said it hit capacity for band alumni to participate.

The university is planning a $133 million revamp of the Department of Chemistry building at University Avenue and Mills Street.

Saturday was Alumni Band Day at Camp Randall. It’s a day when graduates come back, get together and march in the band during the game.

Officials broke ground on a new marina for the Wisconsin Union’s sailing boats Saturday, honoring a family with a long sailing history who contributed to the project.

Noted: In addition to Hodapp’s project, NSF gave $10 million to the Association of Public and Land-grant Universities, based in Washington, D.C., and the Center for the Integration of Research, Teaching, and Learning at the University of Wisconsin in Madison. They are pursuing a three-pronged attempt to improve the skills of STEM faculty members at dozens of universities in mentoring minority students, grow the ranks of minority STEM faculty, and promote diversity throughout academia. Another $10 million Alliance award, based at Saddleback College in Mission Viejo, California, will help community college students in California and three other states overcome deficits in math as the first step into a STEM major. A fourth $10 million Alliance grant, based at the University of Texas in El Paso, will support expansion of a 12-year-old computing alliance among academic institutions that serve a large number of Hispanic students.

A Madison developer is taking another stab at getting city approval for a 12-story student apartment building at the corner of North Charter and West Johnson streets.

A group of 85 former Badgers reunited Thursday evening to reminisce on the years they shared in the Faville and Ross dorm houses.

He was arguably the most popular guy in town this summer. But “Bucky on Parade” is coming to an end Thursday.

If students are found twice to be in violation of the guidelines, they will be suspended. A third offense requires expulsion.

For Student Services Finance Committee chair Jeremy Swanson, the number is only a promise of what is yet to come.

While most University of Wisconsin students were under the age of six when this happened, students still came together Tuesday morning to remember and honor those who died.

Beginning with a kick-off celebration this Friday, the organizers have a full week of events lined up, all united by an emphasis on cross-cultural inclusivity within the Latinx community.

“Wunk Sheek is especially interesting because the native community place such a strong emphasis on members of their community — often those of which who are not attending the university,” Galles said.

On Sept. 7, the University of Wisconsin-Madison College of Agricultural & Life Sciences (CALS) hosted a celebration to mark the launch of a major construction project for Babcock Hall on the Madison, Wis., campus. The $47 million project involves the renovation of the Babcock Hall Dairy Plant, as well as a new three-story addition for the Center for Dairy Research (CDR).

Bucky on Parade ends on Wednesday, September 12th. After that, the statues will be auctioned off at a grand finale party. The money raised will go towards local non-profits. One of those non-profits is Garding Against Cancer. It’s a non-profit, started by UW Men’s Basketball coach Greg Gard. The organization supports cancer research.

UW-Madison will officially open the Latinx Cultural Center and the Asian Pacific Islander Desi American (APIDA) Cultural Center in 2019 following remodeling plans this winter.

The Wunk Sheek student representatives stressed the importance of the organization, as UW falls on indigenous Ho-Chunk land. The decision on Wunk Sheek’s eligibility, which would determine whether the group can receive funding from the committee, will be decided at the next SSFC meeting on Monday, Sept. 10.

Geist and two other UW-Madison alumni, all key players in American documentary production and distribution, were back on campus this week as part of the Department of Communication Arts’ “Spotlight on Documentary” event, screening some of their films and talking about their careers with students.

She is homeschooling her six children while pursuing an advanced degree at the University of Wisconsin–Madison.

Researcher said that although most segregated cities are most dangerous, whites don’t feel negative effects of living in those areas.

UW student Ali Khan’s critique of class on Facebook quickly tallied more than 300 likes, dozens of comments, shares.

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Candee made the decision to take a gap year because she didn’t get into the only college she applied to in 2017 during her senior year of high school — UW-Madison.

Many religious groups are not able to enjoy UW staple because of its ingredients, Rep. Jared Lang says.

Babcock ice cream contains beef gelatin, which is used as a stabilizing agent. Because of this gelatin, Jewish, Hindu, Buddhist, and vegetarian individuals are unable to enjoy it without it being a violation of their beliefs. ASM called it a “gross act of discrimination” for minority students if the ice cream were to remain the same.

“Students often have the impression that everyone else is loving college and finding friends, which isn’t always the case,” said Communications Director for the Division of Student Life, Darcy Wittberger.  “As with any major life transition, people experience ups and downs.”

Administration, students work to redress university’s oppressive, racist past in light of study group report.

Tsang and members of the APIDA committee were not discouraged when their proposal was initially rejected by the university. They formed a coalition with members of the Latinx, Native American, and African American cultural centers on campus and ultimately negotiated that the mezzanine space in the Red Gym would be used for APIDA and Latinx Cultural Student Centers.

I thought about this story recently while talking with Beth Alleman, a nursing student who coordinates student voter outreach for the student government at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. The first time Alleman voted, she was an undergraduate in her home state of Illinois. She’d been told—probably inaccurately—that registering to vote at a new location could jeopardize her health insurance, since she was still on her parents’ health-care plan. So on Election Day she took two different trains back to her home district, got someone to pick her up at the station and drive her to her polling place, voted, then drove back and took another two trains to return to Chicago.

Friday marked the beginning of Badger football season, and the beginning of the end of Mike Leckrone’s last season as the director of the University of Wisconsin Marching Band.