Category: Campus life

Lee said Asian-Americans should not settle for lesser position on totem pole due to model minority myth.

Six Student Services Finance Committee representatives faced impeachment Thursday, leaving some frustrated that the committee failed to amend its attendance policy in a hearing last month.

A search and screen committee has named three finalists for the position of vice chancellor for student affairs at UW–Madison, the university announced Thursday.

The first screening of the first Wisconsin Film Festival took place on April 29, 1999, in what was then called the Wisconsin Union Theater … For 2018, the festival is back in the theater, now called Shannon Hall, for the first time in six years.

Two local undocumented students will have an easier time paying for school next year, thanks to a new scholarship fund created by the student organizations Dreamers of UW-Madison.

A group of UW-Madison students has taken advocating for undocumented students into their own hands.

Former SJ General Counsel Josh Gerrelts allegedly used word ’gay’ in a homophobic manner, said ’Jewed out of a win’ in reference to case.

While McBurney’s accommodation services are ’excellent,’ UW’s campus exhibits a lack of understanding of Deaf culture.

Representatives advocated for amplifying freshmen voice on campus.

For the first time, the MSC will celebrate Middle Eastern North African Heritage Month and Asian Pacific Islander Desi American Heritage Month to highlight those communities and the impact they have on UW-Madison.

After a protest from the Teaching Assistants’ Association, the Associated Students of Madison unanimously adopted a resolution Tuesday declaring support to the organization in their fight against a new segregated fee policy.

Property owner Steve Brown Apartments received a demolition permit for its seven-story building at 126 Langdon St. that had been used as a private dormitory for decades, but has been vacant since 2008 after student demand for the housing option dropped. Most utility service had been cut to the building in 2011.

The American Council of Engineering Companies is honoring the unique upgrades at the Memorial Union.

Prestigious Hilldale Awards were also presented to UW faculty.

Behind-the-scenes shots of a Memorial Union emblem.

Q&A with Jo Handelsman, director of the Wisconsin Institutes for Discovery.

Thursday afternoon a group of UW-Madison graduate student workers protested a proposed change to their segregated fee payment method.

In 1968, the feminist movement was the leading force in introducing the Gender & Women’s Studies class “Women and Their Bodies in Health and Disease” into UW-Madison’s curriculum. Fifty years later, the class has become imperative to the department, according to Professor Jenny Higgins.

Plan announced early this week makes graduate workers pay expensive fees before first paycheck.

Students who spend time at the MeChA House — the university community center for the Chicanx and Latinx community — and at the American Indian Cultural Center on Brooks Street believe the university has plans to replace their houses. But according to Campus Planning and Architecture Director Gary Brown, rumors that both houses will be torn down are premature.

Policy places financial hardship on graduate students, Teaching Assistants Association says.

The library closed its doors more than half a semester ago, one of the first spaces to be eliminated as part of UW-Madison’s plan to consolidate its library system.

Attempts to encourage UW-Madison’s student body to have a say in choosing their student representatives proved mostly futile last week after just 6 percent voted in the Associated Students of Madison student election — the lowest turnout in 10 years.

Donald Moynihan, director of the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s LaFollette School of Public Affairs, announced Tuesday via Twitter that he will be leaving this fall to join the faculty of Georgetown University in Washington, D.C.

Matthew Yglesias, co-founder of Vox, led the panel’s discussion of Trump’s first year in office.

While new policy remains contested by many students, modifications have eased some nerves.

Speaker argues algorithms can have racist implications.

UHS is in the middle of a “Supporting Student Success” workshop series that aims to help UW-Madison students coping with school-related stress.

Novak said the plan is a solution that will maintain financial stability for dining facilities, even though the plan was initially introduced as a way to provide greater transparency for students and their families as to how much they would spend in the dining halls.

Rumors on social media that Steve Carell was touring UW-Madison set the campus abuzz Monday afternoon, with some students reporting sightings and others searching the school grounds for the comedian.

Comedian and actor Steve Carrell visited the University of Wisconsin Madison on Monday. His visit had the campus buzzing with excitement, with students reporting sightings and searching the campus for the comedian.

Students fled from midterm studies and classes Monday after rumors spread on social media that the beloved movie and television star Steve Carell was on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus.

Kristi Parsons, SSFC vice chair, said there were major issues with report.

With increasing uncertainty around the safety and security of undocumented students at the University of Wisconsin, the Faculty Senate will vote in April on the formation of a new standing committee representing the needs of international and immigrant students.

An online petition from the Associated Student of Madison’s Equity and Inclusion Committee calls on the university to draft a usage policy — which would encourage students to use the bathroom that they are most comfortable using — by mid-April.

Students will soon see the LGBT Campus Center name replaced with Gender and Sexuality Campus Center in the Red Gym, the campus center recently announced.

Ahead of next weeks’ scheduled protest against gun violence, students are planning the local “March for Our Lives” rally. On Friday, organizers spoke atop Bascom Hill on the University of Wisconsin- Madison campus.

Both high school and college students gathered at Bascom Hill Friday morning and talked about how they felt during an active shooter false alarm that happened on campus this winter.

A group of at least 30 students from University of Wisconsin-Madison has started Solar Para Niños, a project to implement solar energy in Puerto Rico.

The Student Service Finance Committee narrowly shot down an amendment that would change its current attendance policies, after a debate that lasted for nearly an hour Thursday.

Just six percent of UW-Madison students turned out to vote in the Associated Students of Madison elections this spring.