Category: Campus life

The massive bell tower that has served as the symbolic voice of UW-Madison has been silent since August.

Two years ago, UW-Milwaukee doctoral student and lecturer Stephanie Baran attended a conference where she spoke about the effects racism, sexism and classism have on capitalist practices.

After nearly three hours of debates and budget hearings, the University of Wisconsin Student Services Finance Committee voted to impeach Rep. Tyriek Mack Thursday.

More than 3,000 University of Wisconsin employees will not receive proposed raises or overtime eligibility after a federal judge temporarily blocked President Barack Obama’s federal regulations governing overtime pay.

Training the next generation of developers to build more affordable housing is a great way help ease the crisis of homelessness, according a University of Wisconsin-Madison real estate expert.

Thousands of UW-Madison employees will not get planned raises or become eligible for overtime pay after a federal judge blocked an Obama administration action to change rules affecting salaried workers, campus officials announced Thursday.

More than 3,000 UW-Madison employees will not receive proposed salary increases or switch to hourly positions following a federal judge’s recent block of President Barack Obama’s overtime pay rule.

UW-Madison students, faculty and staff met in a town hall meeting to discuss the future of the Latinx community on campus following the presidential election.

When the University of Wisconsin Board of Regents approved a five-year contract in August to allow online retail giant Amazon to put a package pickup point on the UW–Madison campus, among the deciding factors were convenience and the minimum of $100,000 per year in commissions the deal would bring to the university. Under the plan, packages with campus ZIP codes would be dropped off at a single pickup site, which is expected to open by spring 2017.

University of Wisconsin-Madison officials say Chancellor Rebecca Blank doesn’t have the authority to declare the school a sanctuary for students who entered the country illegally as minors.

The Associated Students of Madison stood in solidarity with sexual assault survivors and undocumented students at the University of Wisconsin Wednesday.

The Elections Research Center at UW-Madison will host a day-long symposium next Friday, Dec. 9, on the historic upset that made Donald Trump the president-elect.

Four students met with UW-Madison Provost Sarah Mangelsdorf Wednesday to request the school offer free feminine hygiene products in Bascom Hall restrooms.

For many Muslims on campus, wearing a hijab comes with a number of daily challenges. On Wednesday, 45 non-Muslim participants wore hijabs to try and get a sense of the Hijabi experience.

UW-Madison’s student-run tutoring service, Greater University Tutoring Service, had its budget for the 2018 fiscal year approved at $141,514.08 by the Student Service Finance Committee Monday.

The Wisconsin Institute for Discovery announced UW-Madison alumna Jo Handelsman as its new director Tuesday.

Muslim students on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus are inviting students to understand Islam as a part of Islam appreciation week.

No one knows the exact date, but it happened during the first three months of 1917. Physics department assistant professor Earle Terry and his wife, Sadie, invited a group of faculty, deans, and friends to their home to hear the “first broadcast” of the University of Wisconsin radio station.

Muslim students on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus are inviting students to understand Islam as a part of Islam appreciation week.

With the election of Donald Trump and recent controversial racially charged incidents occurring on campus, students of color have expressed feeling unsafe at the University of Wisconsin.

Much of the renovated first floor at UW-Madison’s Memorial Union will reopen next week.

Another part of the Memorial Union renovation at UW-Madison will be completed in one week.

The Muslim Student Association aims to educate UW-Madison about Islamic culture during Islam Appreciation Week over the next several days.

A rainy summer and the impending winter have forced officials to push back the opening date of Alumni Park, the planned new lakeside green space between Memorial Union and the Red Gym on the UW-Madison campus.

University of Wisconsin-Madison Chancellor Rebecca Blank has signed a statement calling on the federal government to protect undocumented students on campuses across the country.

Dr. John Herrington talked with UW-Madison students Thursday night. He was born into the Chickasaw Nation and is credited with being the first enrolled member of a Native American tribe to fly in space.

Following a call from students of color in the fall of 2015, Vice Provost for Diversity and Climate and Chief Diversity Officer Patrick Sims, Dean of Students Lori Berquam and Chancellor Rebecca Blank met to create a space at UW-Madison for black students that will open this spring.

Student Services Finance Committee amended both of the proposed budgets of the Muslim Student Association and of the Student Leadership Program for the fiscal year of 2018 during Monday night’s weekly meeting.

Having scrapped an earlier plan for a metal leaf due to rising materials costs, committee members representing the Madison Art Commission and the Downtown Coordinating Committee heard presentations from three finalists on Friday. They ultimately chose a proposal by RDG Dahlquist, based in Des Moines.

Sixteen incidents of bias were reported at the University of Wisconsin-Madison during the week after the 2016 presidential election.

As anti-Trump student protests began at American universities last week, members of Climate Action 350, a student group dedicated to climate solutions, were protesting something entirely different.

A city selection committee is recommending a large rectangular steel and stone sculpture be placed on State Street Mall.

Dr. John Herrington is scheduled to talk to UW-Madison students Thursday night. He was born into the Chickasaw Nation and is credited with being the first enrolled member of a Native American tribe to fly in space.

The panelists, Charlie Sykes, a conservative radio talk show host; Dave Weigel, a reporter for the Washington Post; and Mike Wagner and Kathy Cramer, both professors at the UW LaFollette School of Public Affairs, took questions from the audience during the 90-minute session.

Student activists protested a lecture called “Dismantling Safe Spaces: Facts Don’t Care About Your Feelings” by conservative media personality Ben Shapiro Wednesday evening.

Inside a corner office in the Student Activity Center every Sunday night, Associated Students of Madison Chair Carmen Goséy and Vice Chair Mariam Coker meet to lay out plans of positive change for the campus.

Given the divisive and stressful state many find themselves in due to current events, the healing and communal properties of music may make it more important now than ever.