Category: Campus life

In spite of Tuesday’s record turnout, the wait to vote at UW-Madison polling locations remained manageable, officials there said.

Noted: In general, voting went smoothly in Milwaukee and statewide, but there were long lines in some locations statewide, especially near college campuses such as Marquette University and the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay, said Albrecht and Michael Haas, elections administrator for the state Government Accountability Board.

UW-Madison has issued thousands of free voter IDs to students for the Wisconsin Primary.

By 3:15 p.m. Tuesday, the university had issued a total of 3,332 IDs according to university officials. 750 were issued on Tuesday alone.

The voter ID law does not allow people to vote with IDs issued by other states, and UW-Madison’s student IDs don’t meet the law’s criteria. UW-Madison senior Dylan Edwards was turned away from his Downtown polling place Tuesday morning because he had only a driver’s license from his home state, Pennsylvania. Like thousands of UW-Madison students, Edwards needed to get one of the university’s separate voting ID cards Tuesday morning.It took him about five minutes to wait in line and get a voting ID at an office in the Gordon Dining and Events Center, two blocks from his polling place. “It’s a little frustrating,” Edwards said of the process, before heading back to his polling place for a second attempt.

On Tuesday, Wisconsin’s primary elections drew crowds of University of Wisconsin-Madison students eager to vote. By 3:15 p.m. in the afternoon, the university had issued 3,332 free voter IDs for use in the election, with 750 issued that day, according to a news release … While the College Democrats didn’t have an official party planned, the university’s College Republicans held a watch party Tuesday evening at the Red Zone, 1212 Regent St. Around 40 students attended and of the students surveyed, there was little enthusiasm for Trump; most said they were supporting Ted Cruz or John Kasich.

Motorists driving in the UW Hospital area on the West Side should expect traffic delays the rest of spring because of road construction and the expansion of the hospital’s parking ramp.

Mauston High School alumni Shawn and Alaina Laursen may have traded their gold and blue for cardinal red and white, but they’re coming home on Saturday and bringing their friends with them.

Noted: McDonell said a driver’s license, Wisconsin ID card, a passport or student ID will be accepted, but University of Wisconsin-Madison students will need to get a secondary student ID in order to vote.

Students can get a secondary ID at Union South.

Since March, students at the University of Wisconsin-Madison have protested incidents of racism on campus with the hashtag #TheRealUW — and now they want some presidential candidates to acknowledge the movement ahead of the state’s primary on Tuesday.

While University of Wisconsin students are beginning to register for courses for the fall semester, one UW professor is looking to reform the registration system so students can easily find classes they are more likely to enjoy. Harry Brighouse, a UW philosophy professor who specialized in educational policy studies, said he believes a better way students can choose their general education requirement classes is through implementing a course recommendation and reviewing system.

Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vermont) brought stars and everyday supporters out to the Kohl Center Sunday night for a final Dane County rally before Tuesday’s Democratic presidential primary election in Wisconsin.

In his third visit to the progressive hub of Madison this week, Bernie Sanders failed to fill the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Kohl Center — but succeeded in firing up the supporters who heard his get-out-the-vote rallying cry. Sanders drew 4,400 people to the arena for a Sunday evening rally, two days before Wisconsin’s presidential primary. That number came from UW-Madison police, who had expected a capacity crowd of 17,000.

April 1 is Black Woman Heal Day, an international movement started here in Madison last year to increase awareness, healing and prevention of sexual abuse of black women around the world. It has also spread to the UW-Madison campus where women from the community and students united Friday to empower themselves and each other.

With the Brussels and Paris terror attacks fresh in the minds of Americans some study abroad programs are struggling to fill spots. University of Wisconsin-Madison officials say the recent terror attacks have certainly made students more concerned about traveling, but it hasn’t hurt overall numbers.

Sen. Bernie Sanders told a Madison crowd his administration would be “the opposite of a Scott Walker administration” at a rally to get out the vote. Sanders spoke to 4,400 people, according to UW-Madison Police, one of the smallest crowds he’s drawn since beginning his candidacy.

Sanders spoke to a crowd of 4,400 at the Kohl Center on the UW-Madison campus Sunday night.

You know the drill. A racial incident on campus is followed by a statement from a campus leader denouncing what has happened, talking about how there may be a “teachable moment,” maybe organizing an open forum. And relatively few people read the statement or remember it a few days later.

Noted: UW–Madison, which contains more mounds than any college anywhere, does publish maps of local campus mounds. Start your research at lakeshorepreserve.wisc.edu.

While a student at the University of Wisconsin in the early 1950s, Allan H. Selig — better known as “Bud” — wanted to teach history. After a detour spanning some 60 years, he is now doing just that.

Presidential hopeful Hillary Clinton was billed $1,355 for her use Monday of a UW-Madison facility for an hour-long campaign stop with a crowd of 250 invited guests.

Noted: He scheduled a rally at UW-Madison’s Kohl Center for Sunday night, which would be his third trip to Madison leading up to the Tuesday primary.

Anti-Semitic flyers containing swastikas have been found on campus printers at University of Wisconsin-Madison and UW-Milwaukee.

Noted: “In a single term, the Supreme Court could demolish pillars of the progressive movement,” Clinton said at the University of Wisconsin. She pointed to the possibility of a Trump presidency, asking, “What kind of justice will a President Trump appoint?”

Noted: “‘I’m here, because not only do I want to compete for every vote, but I also like and respect the people of Madison and Dane County,” Clinton told a crowd of a few hundred invited guests at UW-Madison’s Gordon Commons Monday afternoon.

Hillary Clinton on Monday blasted Republicans who regularly “bemoan” the rise of Donald Trump, their party’s presidential front-runner, while also allowing the GOP to “make the extreme normal” in politics and in Congress. The former secretary of state, campaigning in Wisconsin ahead of the state’s primary on April 5, urged voters at the University of Wisconsin-Madison to make the Supreme Court a voting issue, while showing that she is keeping close tabs on the Republican presidential race.

Controlled burns are scheduled Tuesday at the University of Wisconsin Arboretum and Pheasant Branch Conservancy.

Hillary Clinton said she believes she can “do quite well” in Wisconsin by getting out and talking to voters. Clinton sat down with News 3 following a speech at Gordon Commons on the University of Wisconsin-Madison Campus Monday.

Noted: In a speech at the University of Wisconsin, Clinton pointed to Trump’s past statements about building a wall along the Mexican border and barring all non-citizen Muslims from entering the United States.

Hillary Clinton on Monday urged a small crowd at UW-Madison to consider future rulings by the U.S. Supreme Court when casting a ballot in Tuesday’s presidential primary and in November’s general election.

Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton kicked off her Wisconsin campaign Monday by attacking Republicans for blocking President Barack Obama’s Supreme Court nominee, specifically singling out Sen. Ron Johnson.

Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton spent much of a campaign stop in Madison Monday blasting Republicans for refusing to hold hearings or a vote on President Obama’s Supreme Court nominee, Merrick Garland, arguing that the obstructionism is “revealing the worst of our politics.”

Hillary Clinton seized on the struggle over the Supreme Court vacancy on Monday, issuing a scathing indictment of congressional Republicans and blaming their “extremist tactics” in opposing President Obama for Donald J. Trump’s rise as the leading Republican candidate.

Democratic candidate for President Hillary Clinton will make a stop at the University of Wisconsin-Madison Monday, according to her campaign.

Clinton will make remarks at Gordon Commons around 3:45 p.m. Monday, March 28. Doors open an hour before that

Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton will be campaigning in Madison Monday. Clinton will be at Gordon Commons on the University of Wisconsin-Madison Monday afternoon.

Clinton will make remarks to invited guests at UW-Madison’s Gordon Commons, 770 W. Dayton Street, at 3:45 p.m. Doors open at 2:45 p.m. A UW-Madison news release says the event is not open to the campus community or the public.

Investigators reviewing the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s compliance with federal anti-sex discrimination laws will be on campus next month to talk with students about the climate around sexual assault and harassment.

The University of Wisconsin-Madison said former Attorney General Eric Holder will speak at a May ceremony for graduating law school students.

Student outrage expressed on social media over a series of reported hate incidents on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus is demanding a new level of response from university officials, said Patrick Sims, vice provost and chief diversity officer. “It is forcing administrators to respond in ways we haven’t in the past to the kind of challenges students have experienced for some time,” Sims said Tuesday morning in an interview on Wisconsin Public Radio. “I’ve been hearing about these kinds of things for over a decade.”

Former attorney general Eric Holder will be the featured speaker at a ceremony for UW-Madison law school graduates during this spring’s commencement weekend.

The hit Disney animated movie Zootopia has shattered box office records, and the movie’s writer grew up in our own backyard. “Neenah, Wisconsin – I haven’t lived there in over 20 years but I still think of myself from being from Neenah when I close my eyes, it’s still what I picture as home,” said Phil Johnston.