Category: Campus life

Student obituaries from the 2016-’17 academic year.

University of Wisconsin graduate student Michael Davis says he feels isolated, excluded and afraid as a black student on the predominantly white campus, where he’s been called a racial slur multiple times.

For students at Wisconsin’s flagship university, a college education now comes with a side of local hydroponic butter lettuce.

Two UW-Madison organizations will host one of the nation’s most controversial political scientists for an off-campus lecture this week, and demonstrators are gearing up to confront him.

Students are invited to gather at the UW-Madison Library Mall at 11 a.m. and also make their way to the Capitol.

University of Wisconsin-Madison administrators swiftly dismissed a call from the Associated Students of Madison student council to divest from corporations involved in private prisons, fossil fuels, border walls or arms manufacture.

To fix climate problems, says individuals need to realize they are not separate from nature.

The student government of the University of Wisconsin-Madison unanimously passed a divestment resolution targeting companies operating in many countries that included an amendment specifically about Israel.

The student government of the University of Wisconsin-Madison included an amendment specifically about Israel in a divestment resolution targeting companies operating in many countries.

Student council also approved resolution calling for community control of police.

Amid a recent push by students to create a more inclusive and safe campus for everyone, the UW-Madison community will bid farewell to an administrator who led these initiatives.

After a month of debates, walkouts and lawsuits, UW-Madison’s student government unanimously passed wide-ranging divestment legislation Wednesday—but an amendment naming Israel was once again the main point of contention.

As UW-Madison prepares to renovate its libraries, campus and community members heard the latest updates to the project in a town hall Tuesday.

n the face of protests about the violence of capitalism just outside the door, Steve Forbes’ appearance on campus hit back against regulation and extolled the moral and social virtues of free enterprise.

University screening policies, traveler preparedness combine to minimize potential dangers overseas.

UW-Madison will work with graduate students in the Office of Human Resources and representatives from different colleges to develop new policies and procedures related to graduate assistant employment.

Nine percent of UW-Madison students experience suicidal ideation, according to a recent University Health Services report, leading the campus community to raise concerns about stigma surrounding the issue.

Karen Oberhauser, a monarch butterfly researcher, has been named director of the UW-Madison Arboretum.

Students at the University of Wisconsin-Madison want more information on — and influence over — the investments and business dealings of their school. But efforts by student government to compel more transparency and exert influence have opened rifts among its members.

Three times this week Associated Students of Madison representatives brought cases against their own Student Council surrounding controversial divestment legislation and a subsequent bylaws change.

Release of student date of birth, graduation date among changes Office of Registrar will enact.

Berquam shared news in hopes of showing solidarity with students whose lives have been touched by cancer.

The UW-Madison’s Varsity Band Concert was held this past weekend. The annual spectacle is something nearly 30,000 fans look forward to, but the band was almost without its charismatic leader who recently underwent double bypass surgery.

Shanara Reid-Brinkley concluded her three-day lecture series by highlighting ways white, black community can come together.

Medical Students for Choice and NARAL Pro-Choice Wisconsin hosted the Thursday panel as leaders in the field of reproductive rights in Wisconsin led a discussion on abortion services at the University of Wisconsin Health Services Learning Center.

If the guiding principle of the Wisconsin Idea is indeed to bring knowledge beyond the state’s campuses, UW-Madison’s partnership with Nazarbayev University in Kazakhstan may be the most extreme manifestation of that goal.

As the Kohl Center prepares for the 43rd Annual Varsity Band Spring Concert. Backstage, UW Band Director Mike Leckrone is getting ready to take center stage.

Statistics instructors at the University of Wisconsin-Madison are apologizing to students for putting a question about a border wall on a test.

A national expert on civil rights, social justice and campus culture has been named the next president of Hobart and William Smith Colleges.

You and your dog have a chance to help raise money for the department.

The UW-Madison Libraries are in the midst of a makeover, and in light of proposed transformations, the university will hold two upcoming town halls dedicated to collecting campus input on the futures of the libraries.

Students in full-body cow suits loitered around Library Mall Wednesday, handing out can koozies and beef jerky to passersby.