Category: Campus life

Displacement has characterized the Native American experience for hundreds of years.

Alumni of one of the nation’s oldest student newspapers will return to UW-Madison this weekend to celebrate The Daily Cardinal’s 125th birthday.

The Associated student of Madison’s Student Council has demanded UW Athletics sign a 10-year contract with Wunk Sheek to host their annual Spring Powwow at UW facilities.

The student organization Accessible Reproductive Healthcare Initiative is holding a drive through the end of March to collect menstrual products to distribute to low-income people who need them in Madison who could not otherwise afford them.

As director of the UW-Madison botany department’s greenhouses and botanical garden, Mo Fayyaz oversees a world of trees, flowers, crops and other plants on campus.

The seasonal prescribed burns of vegetation at the UW-Madison Arboretum start Tuesday, with the fires set and controlled by crews trained in wildfire management.

Autumn Kent is a mathematician at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and I am lucky enough to call her a friend. Last fall, I was one of the people who was surprised when she came out as a trans woman. I don’t know many trans people, or at least I don’t know that I know them, and I’m grateful that she and my other trans friends have helped me become more conscious of issues affecting trans people and challenged me to be a better ally to trans people.

To promote inclusivity for the Hmong communities at the University of Wisconsin, Associated Students of Madison unanimously moved to endorse a proposal to implement a Hmong-American Studies Program and Certificate Wednesday.

An idea conceived by four UW-Madison students in the fall of 2012 is coming to fruition with the remodel of Witte Residence Hall. After 53 years, the dorm, located in the Southeast neighborhood of UW-Madison’s campus, is set to be renovated later this month.

As national debates on immigration grow more prominent, the University of Wisconsin is hosting a conference to discuss how to help the children of immigrants and refugees cope with the challenges of starting life in a new community.

Excitement rose Monday as snow fell with the announcement that the annual Battle for Bascom would be taking place. The tradition, now in its sixth year, calls all students that currently or previously lived in the Lakeshore and Southeast neighborhoods to face off in a snowball fight on Bascom Hill.

Noted: The city’s University of Wisconsin campus has more than 1,200 faculty in the biological and physical sciences, plus an uncounted number of academic and university staff who are scientists, according to UW spokeswoman Meredith McGlone. And as of last fall, there were more than 19,000 students, including graduate students, in those sciences out of a total of some 43,000.

Visitors to an Italian-style restaurant inside the Memorial Union at the University of Wisconsin-Madison may notice a different kind of carry-out container is being used.

Members of the Associated Students of Madison will soon be paid by the hour in order to adhere to federal minimum wage.

More students may stay on campus this summer due to university attempts to make Summer Term more accessible through scholarships and flexible courses.

As part of ongoing celebrations of International Women’s Day, University of Wisconsin students and members of the Madison community gathered Wednesday to discuss key issues affecting women’s rights, ranging from the patriarchy to President Donald Trump.

A pledge to implement 100 percent renewable electricity by 2030 at UW-Madison could be on the table after The Climate Reality Project recently opened a new branch on campus.

UW’s Band is marching for meals, sharing about the importance of the Meals on Wheels program. Students started off playing crowd favorites at The Gardens Retirement Community, moving on to play at other senior apartments throughout Madison.

In an effort to include more encompassing language in Associated Students of Madison’s constitution, a nondiscrimination amendment was passed in a 3155-369 referendum vote during its annual student elections.

Beginning in May, the Associated Student of Madison will have a new set of faces seated at the table after spring election votes were tallied for representatives and a change in ASM’s constitution Wednesday.

Madison police said officers working traffic control had helped an estimated 700 people march safely to the Capitol. Starting around 11 a.m., they came from two directions: along State Street from Library Mall on the UW-Madison campus and along East Washington Avenue.

Last year, a website called WalletHub ranked the best and worst cities for St. Patrick’s Day celebrations, and Madison ranked 7th out of 100 cities.

Shellenberger, a pro-nuclear environmentalist has co-authored multiple books, including “The Death of Environmentalism,” “Break Through,” and “An Ecomodernist Manifesto.” He has been an advocate for environmental and social justice for more than 25 years.

A letter sent by a large group of black UW-Madison alumni drew a response from the university’s chief diversity officer, who said he hopes to work with the group to improve campus climate for students of color.

War has raged in Syria for nearly six years, taking the lives of over 450,000 people and uprooting millions from their homes. College students are among the refugees trying to find a safe place. After witnessing the war in her home country, University of Wisconsin-Madison (UW-Madison) junior Nour Saeed was inspired to act. A proud dual-citizen originally from Amman, Jordan, she has helped Syrian refugees in higher education by petitioning for UW-Madison to offer ten scholarship opportunities to Syrian students.

Michigan Tech has never won this competition and two-time defending champs University of Wisconsin-Madison is going to try and keep it that way.