How do Jewish students take on a student government council that seems determined to sanction Israel, establishing it as the perfect example of evil in the world, making the effort to vote against that idea personally dangerous and morally corrupt?
UW-Madison students considering a career in retail will soon have access to a 38-year veteran of the retail and apparel industry. The Kohl’s Center for Retailing has announced that Lorna Nagler will serve as the Alumni Executive in Residence for the fall semester.
UW-Madison accounts on other social networking sites did not appear to be affected, nor were the many other UW-affiliated accounts on Twitter, according to spokesman John Lucas.
Monumental moments that riveted Madison in 1967.
The University of Wisconsin at Madison’s Twitter account, @UWMadison, was hacked early Wednesday morning and published some bizarre tweets before the university regained control of it, according to a university news release.
Noted: Should the bills become law, they may encourage wider awareness of the crime both among law enforcement and civilians. In a statement to NBC News, the University of Wisconsin-Madison Police Department seemed unaware of the term’s existence altogether: “’Stealthing’ is a not a term we’re familiar with, so thanks for the explanation,” police spokesman Marc Lovicott wrote. “We have not investigated a case like that before.”
The main Twitter account for UW-Madison was hacked Wednesday morning and university authorities are working with Twitter to resolve the issue, UW-Madison spokesperson Meredith McGlone said.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Twitter account has been hacked, UW police reported Wednesday morning.
Over the past year, several colleges have improved access to menstrual products on their campuses, including in some men’s and gender-neutral restrooms. That last detail has prompted some conservative websites to take note.
A crowd of roughly 42,000 friends and family of graduates enjoyed the clear and sunny sky for the 2017 Spring Commencement at Camp Randall Saturday.
Nine time Emmy Award-winning producer, co-creator and executive producer of “Modern Family,” Steven Levitan didn’t want to give “cliché advice” to this year’s graduating class.
A public hearing on a Republican bill to prevent students at University of Wisconsin campuses from disrupting controversial speakers wasn’t exactly a model of the pro-free speech sentiment espoused in the proposal, said some critics who waited hours to have their say.
A UW-Madison graduate who worked as a legal advocate for victims of domestic abuse before heading West to Colorado is returning to become the campus Title IX coordinator.
Now that school is over at UW-Madison, let the road construction crews on campus.
Graduating from college is a monumental accomplishment. An accomplishment that Brooke Evans has fought hard for.
Column by Bromley, a professor emeritus of applied economics at UW-Madison.
Much of the wisdom doled out at UW-Madison’s spring commencement ceremony on Saturday came with a punchline — which is perhaps to be expected when the keynote speaker is the creator of one of television’s most popular comedies.
Saturday, more than 6,000 UW Madison students turned their tassels at Camp Randall.
As thousands of University of Wisconsin-Madison graduates prepare for their next step in life, several shared advice for future Badgers.
UNDATED (WSAU) – Skylar Witte, a 19-from Schofield, competed in the Miss USA pageant over the weekend in Las Vegas. She’s a DC Everest graduate and is currently a junior at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
The fault lines of a national debate over free speech in higher education were on display Thursday during a lengthy hearing on Republican legislation that would require University of Wisconsin institutions to discipline students who interrupt speakers.
Commencement student speaker Martin Weiss shares a preview of his remarks.
The Associated Students of Madison’s Student Judiciary voided legislation Wednesday which would have created a bylaw change for the creation of a financial transparency and ethics subcommittee.
When Lakshmi Sridharan moved from India to Madison in the late 1960s to attend graduate school at UW-Madison, the local Indian American community looked much different than it does today. There were no Indian restaurants, no colorful Holi celebrations, no theaters showing Bollywood movies. On campus, the community was so small and close-knit that whenever someone’s relative from India would visit, all the Indian students would get together to share news from home and eat traditional foods.
The Madison Transit and Parking Commission was unsatisfied Wednesday with a proposal to ban parking mopeds citywide on sidewalks and terraces with some exceptions.
Thousands of students at UW-Madison will get their diplomas this weekend. One of them has gone from U.S. Marine, to Dad, and will soon be a business owner aiming to help parents in Madison.
In ruling, Chief Justice Will Olson suggested former chair Carmen Goséy attend training on religious tolerance.
Although the Big Ten is best known for its athletic and academic prowess, it’s now clear the conference is also a renewable energy powerhouse.
After many UW-Madison students were confused by a May 5 Facebook notification telling them their official senior, junior or sophomore class groups had been “archived,” a university official confirmed to The Daily Cardinal that the school shut down the groups.
Alumni Park—a 1.3 acre park located between Memorial Union and the Red Gym—is set to open to the public Oct. 6.
Just under a week after opening the Black Cultural Center on campus, UW-Madison released a statement detailing the university’s accomplishments over the past year—particularly those relating to diversity on campus.
UW-Madison Chancellor Rebecca Blank got a couple of tough questions about free speech during an hour-long conference call with more than 6,000 alumni Monday. Her responses were impressive and should reassure conservatives that the state’s flagship university is committed to encouraging diverse views on campus.
No one who appreciates the high value Wisconsin has historically placed on academic freedom can accept the restrictions state Rep. Jesse Kremer, R-Kewaskum, state Sen. Leah Vukmir, R-Brookfield, and their co-authors have proposed in a pair of speech-code bills that outline schemes for punishing students and restricting the ability of the UW and its administrators to take stands on major issues.
Hundreds gathered on the UW-Madison campus Sunday for the annual “Out of the Darkness” walk. The event helps raise awareness for suicide prevention.
Noted: “Funny speeches are best,’’ said Negrut, the speech maven. She points approvingly to Modern Family sitcom creator Steve Levitan’s You Tube video previewing his speech this month at his alma mater, the University of Wisconsin-Madison. It features MF’s Phil Dunphy (Ty Burrell) announcing Levitan as the speaker, but claiming never to have heard of him.
Noted: Interview with Jessie Wright of the Wisconsin School of Business
The outgoing chair of the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s student government blasted the university in a letter that has been widely circulated on social media, saying the university “does not care about people of color.”
The Madison Traffic Engineering Division said the 300 block of North Lake Street, between West Dayton Street and West Johnson Street, will close at 6 a.m. Saturday and stay closed until 6 p.m. Saturday, May 13.
To get people to eat salad, make it cheaper than a cheeseburger. That idea is one of dozens of incremental changes executive chef Ellen Ritter, 41, has overseen over the past few years at UW Health.
Recent accounts of free-speech issues both on the UW-Madison campus and elsewhere throughout the country move me to write to express some perplexity over these incidents. Why, I ask myself for the umpteenth time, is protesting imitatively and predictably on such a scale regarded as a particularly effective expedient? Why not adopt a different strategy?
RACINE, Wis. (AP) — Mechanical engineering students from University of Wisconsin-Madison are taking their book work off the page and onto the track for an international race car competition for college students.
A major diversity goal for UW-Madison officials is “enhancing the campus climate for inclusion.” However, for some students, including outgoing Associated Students of Madison Chair Carmen Goséy, the administration is failing to uphold this ideal.
There will be new faces at the table for the next Student Council meeting after the group elected new sustainability, grant allocation and SAC governing board chairs Thursday night.
On Wednesday, a series of events marked the grand opening celebration of the UW-Madison Black Cultural Center at the Red Gym in Madison.
After much anticipation for protests during a speech by controversial libertarian political scientist Charles Murray Wednesday, the only disturbance came from a brief fire alarm.
Carmen Goséy warns minority parents not to send children to UW.
Center for Study of Liberal Democracy hosted Murray in attempt to reaffirm First Amendment principles.
UW political science professor Ken Mayer asked a group of kindergarteners to come up with the toughest question they could think of. Here’s what they asked
Sen. Leah Vukmir and Rep. Adam Jarchow began circulating the bill for co-sponsors Wednesday. The measure also would prohibit administrators in both systems from expressing themselves on public controversies and require schools to let speakers onto campus even if they can’t guarantee their safety. Organizing protests to dissuade speakers from visiting would be prohibited.
In an interview with the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel on his way to a speaking engagement in Madison, libertarian political scientist and co-author of “The Bell Curve” Charles Murray commented on the climate of college protests against speakers with a conservative viewpoint, efforts to pass new speech laws and his own take on the rise of President Donald Trump.
A couple of protesters blew kazoos and air horns, one pounded on an empty pizza box, and they all chanted that a libertarian speaker inside the Madison Club should go home.
There were police officers, private security guards and plenty of discussion about the potential for disruptions at a lecture Wednesday night by the controversial political scientist Charles Murray.
Noted: University of Wisconsin-Madison faculty from the Center for the Study of Liberal Democracy invited Murray to the dinner before things got out of hand at Middlebury in March. Murray, a political scientist and conservative writer, has spoken at Notre Dame, Vanderbilt and two universities in New York since Middlebury, and protests at those campuses have not interfered with his lectures.
Many legal tools are already available to campus administrators and local authorities that allow them to deal with those who disrupt speakers at campus events.
The Republican sponsor of a proposed bill that would require University of Wisconsin campuses to create a system to punish students who disrupt the free expression of others says he expects Democratic support.
UW-Madison will open a center for black students as the spring semester winds down Wednesday, in what one researcher called a positive step toward the university better supporting African-Americans on campus.
Letter to the editor: Even when they are well-intentioned, attempts by legislators to micro-manage University of Wisconsin affairs are often heavy handed or misdirected.But the bill from Rep. Jesse Kremer, R-Kewaskum, to ensure free speech on campus seems appropriate and essentially constructive.
They are advancing speech-code legislation that Larry Dupuis, legal director of the American Civil Liberties Union’s Wisconsin chapter, correctly refers to as “unnecessarily draconian.” If Assembly Speaker Robin Vos and his compatriots get their way, the Board of Regents would be mandated to adopt policies requiring UW campuses to remain neutral on public controversies — like, one supposes, the debate over how best to protect Wisconsin dairy farmers in international trade disputes. This has the potential to impinge on academic freedom, public discourse and the ability of lobbyists for the university system to advocate for maintenance of the Wisconsin Idea, adequate funding of campuses, tuition issues and more.
The New York Times bestseller—written by J.D. Vance—details the author’s upbringing and struggle with class and social problems in the Rust Belt of Ohio, as well as in Appalachian town in Kentucky.
Grueling competition requires teams to solve series of complex problems in just five hours.
