I thought the spring election last week would be hectic with the new voter ID law, since most of the voters in my ward are UW students. But I have to commend the Badger Herald, Daily Cardinal, Associated Students of Madison, WSUM student radio station and the university for getting out the information that was needed so everyone could vote.
A panel of students from schools across the UW System sat down with the Board of Regents Friday to detail experiences of marginalized student groups and propose recommendations for an improved atmosphere of understanding and inclusion on campus. Five students from schools including UW-Madison, UW-Stout, UW-Green Bay, UW-Parkside and UW-Whitewater participated in the panel.
Officials at the University of Wisconsin-Madison plan to award a graduate student who died last year a rare posthumous degree.
The University of Wisconsin System will create a task force to study the experiences of minority students and make recommendations to improve the racial climate on UW campuses, officials announced Friday.
When he died last October at age 30, Craig Schuff, a quadriplegic, was just a few neutrons short of completing his doctorate in electrical engineering at UW-Madison. He had already earned a master’s degree in nuclear engineering, already passed a qualifying examination and prelims, and had already begun preparing to defend his thesis. He had interrupted his graduate studies in the College of Engineering once before, in 2011, when a Lake Monona diving accident damaged his spinal cord and left him motionless, but no less motivated. Now, in death, Schuff rejoins the elite: In May at UW-Madison graduation ceremonies, his parents will accept for him a posthumous doctorate in electrical engineering.
Officials at the University of Wisconsin-Madison plan to award a graduate student who died last year a rare posthumous degree.
University of Wisconsin-Madison sophomore Ashley Hampton is, in many ways, a lot like other students on her campus. She’s in sorority, is steadily working toward a degree in community and nonprofit leadership, and loves to travel and spend time with friends.
UW-Madison hosted an informational session Thursday at Gordon Dining and Event Center to explain both the classification of incidents of hate and bias and the process of reporting them.
The FBI Milwaukee Division issued a consumer warning Thursday for a phone scam that primarily targets college students using the FBI’s phone number on caller ID.
UW-Madison officials are hoping by talking about issues of hate and bias on campus, they’ll bring students together in a difficult climate right now.
The Wisconsin primary saw many young voters finding ways to ignite conversations about issues they feel are most important. For students at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, a series of racially charged incidents have inspired them to create a special hashtag: #TheRealUW.
#TheRealUW hashtag has picked up new momentum in the last several weeks, as students have increasingly made use of the hashtag to share their stories about race-related encounters at the UW. We hear from a recent UW-Madison graduate who shares his own experiences with racism at the UW-Madison and why students have turned to #The Real UW hashtag.
UW-Madison Dean of Students Lori Berquam and Mark Kueppers, assistant director of leadership for the Center for Leadership and Involvement, met with the Associated Students of Madison Coordinating Council Wednesday to get feedback on new language regarding the Wisconsin Experience.
Former UW-Madison chancellor Donna Shalala will be keynote speaker at a global summit for women at the university.
In spite of Tuesday’s record turnout, the wait to vote at UW-Madison polling locations remained manageable, officials there said.
MADISON — The huge voter turnout in the Wisconsin primary could have been even higher without the state’s new photo identification requirement, voter advocacy groups said Wednesday.
Patrick Sims, vice provost for diversity and climate at the University of Wisconsin at Madison, decided last week that he had had enough.When he received a picture of a racial slur, scrawled on notebook paper, that had reportedly been slipped under a freshman’s dorm-room door, Mr. Sims did something unusual for a campus administrator. He recorded a video.
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.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison’s vice provost for diversity and climate took to YouTube last week to condemn a racist, threatening note placed under a student’s dorm room door, referring to it as a “cowardly act” and calling on all students to be part of the solution.
MADISON, Wisconsin — Alfonzo Noble, a senior at Madison West High School, was excited to vote in this year’s Wisconsin primaries — but his state’s strict voter ID law posed a problem. Without a driver’s license, Noble would need to get a special voter ID card at the DMV, about 45-minutes away by bus. And for that, he’d have to provide his birth certificate, his social security card, proof of his address, and even documentation of his name change after he was adopted.
MADISON, WISCONSIN — Tuesday’s presidential primary will the first in Wisconsin’s history to require voters to present photo identification at the polls, and an estimated 300,000 people in the state do not have one.
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.
In a candid, emotional video, Patrick Sims, chief diversity officer at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, demanded an end to the racist messages that have tarnished the campus in recent weeks. “Enough is enough. I’m done,” Sims said in an eight-minute video posted Thursday on You Tube that was quickly shared on social media.
“This is another tool for us in the state,” Walker said before signing the bill at the Wisconsin Energy Institute on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus.
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.
A month in which UW-Madison launched several investigations into racially charged incidents and minority students complained in public forums about the university’s climate came to a close Thursday with yet another high-profile incident on campus.
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.
First-year UW student and Sellery Hall resident Launa Owens was the victim of the hate speech that prompted a strong and emotional response from Vice Provost Patrick Sims, Madison365 has learned.
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.
Called the Agriculture Dean’s Residence but also the Fred House, the Lake Dormer House, Building No. 0072 and “the house formerly known as 10 Babcock Drive,” the 120-year-old Queen Anne at 620 Babcock Drive has Gothic details and no known ghosts. UW-Madison’s College of Agriculture and Life Sciences (CALS) is seeking to raise $2 million for interior renovations to turn its 10,000 square feet into a center for agriculture-related student organizations.
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.
Officials at the University of Wisconsin are investigating a report of a flier that included hate speech being put under the door of a UW student’s dorm room.
The powwow is organized by Wunk Sheek, a UW-Madison student group that promotes awareness of indigeneous issues and cultures. The event is free and open to all, said Emily Nelis, a Wunk Sheek leader and one of the event’s coordinators.
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.
Ohio Gov. John Kasich couldn’t help but bring up college football in the city of one of Ohio State University’s biggest rivals over the last decade.
For most of her hourlong meeting with UW-Madison students Tuesday afternoon, U.S. Sen. Tammy Baldwin listened.
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.
EDEN PRAIRIE, Minn. – As National Distracted Driving Awareness Month begins in April, a Twin Cities father released a book detailing his research on how to fix the epidemic.
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.”
