Category: Campus life

After the first weekend of Donald Trump’s presidency, UW-Madison College Democrats and Republicans both said they have reasons to feel optimistic.

As Donald Trump took the oath of office to become the 45th United States president Friday morning, some University of Wisconsin-Madison students watched the ceremony on a big screen TV at Union South with varying degrees of enthusiasm.

In one UW-Madison dining hall Friday morning, few students looked up from their food or phones to watch a muted television showing coverage of Donald Trump’s inauguration.

At 11 a.m. Friday morning, Donald Trump was sworn into the Oval Office, effectively becoming the 45th president of the United States of America. At noon, thousands of students across the country staged walkouts in a united national opposition to the newly sworn-in president.

Thousands swarmed State Street on Donald Trump’s first full day as president Saturday in a protest to raise awareness for rights of women and other populations they fear could be in jeopardy under the new White House administration.

University of Wisconsin-Madison police Chief Kristen Roman estimates between 75,000 and 100,000 people attended the event. Demonstrators began gathering on Library Mall on the UW campus before noon, when the group marched down State Street to the Capitol.

A few hundred people gathered on the State Street steps of the Capitol Friday afternoon to end their Occupy The Inauguration march in protest of Donald Trump’s presidency.

The protest, which began at UW-Madison’s Library Mall, snaked through Downtown and ended up at the State Street steps of the Capitol, was organized by the local chapter of the national group Socialist Alternative.

As students make their way to the gym to fulfill New Year’s resolutions, the Southeast Recreational Facility will be fulfilling its own through a series of renovations.

Host countries often offer Syrian refugees an elementary education, but refugees that seek higher education in their new states frequently face logistical and financial barriers. One UW-Madison student has started a movement to urge the university to aid her Syrian counterparts.

A group is organizing a march and rally near the Wisconsin State Capitol to voice their concerns about Friday’s presidential inauguration. If you are downtown, depending on when you take your lunch or evening commute, the rally could affect you.

Students and the public got their first look at the final design drawings for the new southeast recreational facility at UW-Madison Thursday night.

Students walking down Langdon Street Oct. 6 could not have heard a single catcall but instead a chorus promoting sexual assault. Sigma Chi fraternity house, located at 221 Langdon St., is reportedly the source of the explicit chant, according to documents obtained by The Daily Cardinal.

After hours of lengthy discussion, the Associated Students of Madison passed its internal budget for the 2017-18 fiscal year in their first meeting of the semester.

Where once was the cafeteria-style Lakefront on Langdon is now Strada, a fast casual Italian place serving pizza and flatbread wraps called piadina. Nearby, Carte serves grab-and-go sandwiches and salads made Chipotle-style to diner specifications.

Since UW-Madison is currently the only Big Ten institution that does not offer a form of legal help to its students, the Student Services Finance Committee added $50,000 to the budget at the end of last semester intended to fund Student Legal Services.

The first floor of the Memorial Union reopened officially Tuesday with a freshened Der Rathskeller (no significant changes) as well as two new restaurants, Carte and Strada.

The University of Wisconsin Madison Chapter of the Sigma Chi fraternity was placed on suspension Tuesday, by the student-led Committee on Student Organizations.

A UW-Madison committee suspended a fraternity chapter Tuesday amid allegations members provided alcohol to minors and sang a song glorifying multiple sexual assaults.

University of Wisconsin-Madison disciplinary documents allege a fraternity was suspended for providing alcohol to minors and teaching members a song glorifying sexual assault.

The Sigma Chi fraternity at University of Wisconsin-Madison has been suspended from all university activities until March 1 because minors were served alcohol at a chapter function in October, the university announced Tuesday.

MADISON, Wis. — A University of Wisconsin-Madison committee suspended a fraternity chapter Tuesday amid allegations members provided alcohol to minors and sang a song glorifying multiple sexual assaults.

After delivering stories and exhortations in honor of Martin Luther King Jr. Day to a room filled with diversity, student activists laid out the challenges of change-making as people of color on campus, deeming the university’s approach laissez-faire and in need of change.

University of Wisconsin-Madison students want more space to work out at a gym with natural light that is easy to navigate, said junior Emily Ott.

The Office of Quality Improvement at UW-Madison has named Darin Harris as interim director, choosing the long time consultant to the office to take over after Maury Cotter retired.

Vegas, a police horse at the UW-Madison Police Department since 2005, was euthanized Tuesday at the university’s School of Veterinary Medicine after his diseased hind legs couldn’t go any further.

Services for a UW-Madison freshman nursing student who died in a plane crash along with her father in December will be held on Sunday, with a scholarship established in her name at the nursing school.

The Badger Caring Closet, which will open in the Lutheran Campus Ministry in spring, will provide a space for low-income UW-Madison students to get free clothes, hygiene products and school supplies.