The Daily Cardinal plans to cut production of its print edition to two days per week, leaving UW-Madison without a daily student newspaper only a few years after the campus had two of them.
A pair of journalism professors at University of Wisconsin-Madison joined a chorus of criticism of Melissa Click, the University of Missouri professor who blocked one student journalist from photographing protesters who forced the resignation of top university administrators, calling for “some muscle” to remove another.
Republican presidential hopefuls met for the fourth time Tuesday at the Milwaukee Theatre in a smaller, but still lively debate.
Up to 20% of faculty in each unit at the University of Wisconsin-Madison will receive merit- and market-based pay increases this academic year as part of an effort to retain and reward excellence, the university announced Wednesday.
University faculty are calling on students to report more instances of racial-motivated issues in an effort educate the campus community after cases of vandalism occurred recently.
Vandalism of a production poster in Van Hise fueled the conversation about racial identities and bias on campus in a department-wide email sent out Monday.
Students taking classes housed in Vilas Hall, including those in the School of Journalism and Mass Communication, received an email Monday alerting them of “an incident of bias and racism” that occurred a few weeks ago in Vilas Hall.
The attached letter from Vice Provost and Chief Diversity Officer Patrick Sims detailed the vandalism of a poster for the Department of Theater and Drama’s production of “TEA.”
Jim O’Rourke had a less-than-typical freshman year experience. At 24 years old, he transferred to UW-Madison out of the military, where he had been taking college courses in his free time. Unable to connect with his younger classmates, O’Rourke described that first semester as isolating.
“I didn’t have a lot of friends—a lot of the guys don’t have that typical experience where you move into the dorms and have more or less an assigned friend group,” O’Rourke said. “I imagine that’s how it kind of works. I have no idea.”
But weeks into that first semester, O’Rourke found a community in the Veterans, Educators and Traditional Students organization—a smaller group of people he said spoke his language and made him feel at home.
The UW VETS organization (Veterans, Educators and Traditional Students) is holding a special Veterans Day ceremony. Wednesday on Bascom Hill at UW Madison, they will be reading the names of all of the U.S. service men and women killed in the line of duty since September 11, 2001.
UW-Madison plans to spend $3 million this year on raises for its best professors, with money going to reward top faculty members and counter job offers from competing universities, officials announced Tuesday.
Noted: Mr. Ridgel went on to earn a doctorate in economics at the University of Wisconsin and pursue an academic career at institutions across the South.
UW-Madison officials have decided not to hire any of the candidates a search committee recommended to lead the campus’ Office of Student Financial Aid, and will instead restart the search next year … UW-Madison will launch the second search for a financial aid director next spring. Also: Major League Baseball commissioner and Milwaukee Brewers owner Bud Selig will hold the latest in a series of talks about the game’s hist
(Video) Live at Four welcomes festival director Greg Mitman to talk about the environmentally focused event.
The Dane County District Attorney’s Office has decided not to charge a University of Wisconsin-Madison student who was accused of sexually assaulting another student last fall.
The UW Police Department said a 22-year-old UW student was driven to the department by a local food delivery driver on Oct. 25. The woman had asked the worker for a ride saying she needed help. She had been sexually assault outside.
Noted: Daniel Kaplan, a student in the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s First Wave Hip Hop and Urban Arts Learning Community, chose “Lord of the Fly” as his stage name because it represents “being in control of the things you think are cool or ideal,” he told The Daily Cardinal earlier this year.
Radiolab, an award-winning radio show and podcast based in New York City, has an unexpectedly strong tie to Madison.
Noted: In the past year, the Milwaukee Press Club has worked with UW-Madison students to interview people who worked and served with Chapelle. Those interviews will become part of the historical society’s collection.
Noted: The conversations also involved UW-Madison students and faculty, as well as voices from other parts of the country, including Cedric Robinson, professor in the departments of Black Studies and Political Science at the University of California-Santa Barbara, and activist and author Jamala Rogers of St. Louis, who wrote “Ferguson is America: Roots of Rebellion.”
Soren Wheeler, the senior editor at Radiolab, will be on campus all week to work as UW-Madison’s Science Writer in Residence in an effort to help students improve their science writing in a new age of journalism.
Students across the UW-Madison campus have juggled many different responsibilities in preparing for the Madison Marathon that will take place this Sunday.
Dear Editor: UW-Madison is home to upwards of 40,000 students, all of whom play a crucial role in our local government. However, a great number of UW-Madison students are not from Wisconsin. In fact, UW-Madison is expected to increase its number of out-of-state students. On balance, having out-of-state students is a good thing for the university and for the state. It increases diversity, contributes to a growing and talented workforce, and improves the social and economic fabric of our community and state. However, this does not come without unintended consequences, specifically the challenge many students have in participating in our great democracy through the electoral process.
Herds of students bustle through University of Wisconsin-Madison’s campus during class change. Some walk with headphones plugged into their ears, others zip through walkways on their bicycles — and every so often, a student stops in their tracks, raises their phone to face level, and takes a selfie.
When UW-Madison sophomore Stefanie Henry and some of her classmates were told by an engineering professor to “cut their losses” after scoring poorly on a difficult exam, Henry knew she had two options.
As far away as Wisconsin, the tentacles of China’s one-child policy wrap around the people who grew up with it, making Dr. Fuxian Yi something of an oddball among his Chinese friends there. He has three children.
Brent Eisberner generally feels safe on the UW-Madison campus. But the possibility of an attack is always on the law student’s mind. A former Marine Corps captain and concealed carry instructor, Eisberner selects his seats in classrooms and lecture halls based on what position would best allow him to react to an active shooter.
If you’ve ever driven through UW-Madison campus between classes, you know first hand how dangerous it can.
Whether it’s the pedestrians darting out into traffic, the bikers blowing through stop signs or the motorists not stopping at crosswalks, police say it’s no secret there’s a pedestrian safety issue on campus.
The Badger Herald sat down with Chancellor Rebecca Blank and Dean of Students Lori Berquam on Oct. 28 to discuss a range of topics including sexual assault, tenure policy, concealed carry on campus and diversity.
Below is a transcript of the conversation, which has been edited for style and clarity.
University of Wisconsin Chancellor Rebecca Blank says she would not send her daughter to a college that allows concealed weapons in university buildings, and hopes to mobilize parents statewide to voice the same concerns to lawmakers.
“I’m the mother of a sophomore at Northwestern University,” Blank told The Badger Herald editors last week. “I wouldn’t send her to a school where she could end up in a dorm with someone with a gun in the room. I just wouldn’t do that.”
Through this year’s programs, workshops and partnerships, the UW-Madison Working Class Student Union wants the campus community to consider how class affects every aspect of life, according to the organization’s finance director Hong Trinh.
Members of the Associated Students of Madison Legislative Affairs Committee took a step back from discussions on state government campaigns Tuesday to learn about the city and county budgets.
County Board Supervisor Leland Pan, District 5, and Ald. Zach Wood, District 8, detailed the current status of the 2016 fiscal county and city budgets, in an effort to gain student involvement in the process.
UW Madison Police need your help finding three men in the picture above.
Police say the man dressed as a ninja turtle was seen pushing over and damaging mopeds outside Camp Randall on Friday.
Andrew Land came to Union South Monday night to share his epic adventure of surviving the Everest earthquake and avalanches this past April. The Fond du Lac hospice nurse is also a mountain climber who went to Nepal in to conduct a charitable climb for HOPE (Hospice Organization and Palliative Experts) of Wisconsin.
Police are looking for a man dressed as Raphael the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle who they say damaged some mopeds outside Camp Randall Friday afternoon.
The University of Wisconsin Police Department said the man dressed as Raphael was seen pushing over and damaging four mopeds.
Local startup accelerator gener8tor has a powerful new partner for its program fueling businesses launched by Wisconsin college students. The Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation announced Monday it has signed on as a sponsor for the initiative. Also noted: Nationally syndicated Chicago Tribune columnist Clarence Page will be the keynote speaker at the UW-Madison Diversity Forum this week.
Letter to the editor: For 22 semesters I have been parking in the Lake Street parking ramp, and walking to whatever building my class happened to be held in. Only this semester, I have to walk past the homeless as they sleep on the sidewalks and alley ways near the university. I do not consider this an improvement for them over the City-County Building steps.
UW-Madison police on Monday publicly joined a growing number of law enforcement agencies nationwide that use body cameras to provide a clearer record of their daily interactions with those they serve, for good or bad.
“Freakfest X” — the 10th anniversary installment of the latest incarnation of Madison’s Halloween celebration — had the enhancer of falling on the holiday for the first time since 2009, when nearly 40,000 people attended.
UW-Madison Police Chief Susan Riseling said she hopes a proposal to revoke a ban on guns in campus buildings doesn’t even get to the point where she would have to testify against it at a hearing.
Noted: Perhaps the ACLU should pick a new target. Say, the University of Wisconsin-Madison, which refuses to make the changes necessary to make its student ID cards acceptable for voting, despite a joint request to do so from the College Democrats and College Republicans.
Madison Laning, the chair of UW-Madison’s Student Leadership Council, spent last election cycle hustling to make sure her classmates were registered to vote. She estimates that she helped register about 3,000 of them.
Madison Laning, the chair of UW-Madison’s Student Leadership Council, spent last election cycle hustling to make sure her classmates were registered to vote. She estimates that she helped register about 3,000 of them.
Metro Transit buses will be detouring in Downtown Madison and on the UW-Madison campus this weekend, because of the annual Freakfest Halloween street festival on State Street.
Allowing concealed firearms on campus would make the University of Wisconsin-Madison less safe, declares a resolution faculty members will be asked to endorse Monday.
Ever wondered why Memorial Library is the only library on campus that requires a Wiscard for entry?
The reason behind this discrepancy dates back to a chilling incident that occurred in the Memorial Library stacks more than 30 years ago.
The Facilities Planning & Management project team unveiled the newest stage of UW-Madison’s Campus Master Plan during its third public open house Tuesday.
The Campus Master Plan is a collective effort between Facilities Planning & Management, planning consultants and the university community to establish a process of orderly growth for the campus. The plan is updated every 10 years, with the most recent being finalized in 2005. The current master plan is now in month 10 of the full 24-month planning period.
Madison city officials gathered Wednesday to discuss logistics and entertainment for the upcoming Freakfest, which will have its 10th anniversary Saturday.
Madison Police Department’s Central District Captain Carl Gloede emphasised that the event is safe and family-friendly and that the city is excited to hold Freakfest downtown again.
“We’ve come a long way from a public safety perspective in how this event plays out each fall,” he said.
Noted: While the majority of the people SANE treats are young women, only about one in 10 come from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Curran finds that even more surprising considering the geographic proximity between the hospital and campus.
UW Police Department spokesperson Marc Lovicott said sexual assault is one of the most under-reported crimes officers deal with on campus.
“We want them to tell someone because first and foremost, we need to make sure they are getting the help that they need,” Lovicott said.
Last Wednesday, 40 UW Students participated in an open tryout for the Badgers men’s basketball team at Nicholas-Johnson Pavilion.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison is working on an update of the Campus Master Plan.
UW’s chief of police shares techniques and procedures for staying safe in an active shooter situation.
Designing coffins seems like a gloomy task, but Eric Anang — who is completing a residency this fall at University of Wisconsin — uses the family art form to make a statement.
A proposal from Republican legislators would make Wisconsin the second state in the nation to allow complete concealed carry on their public college and university campuses.
Jeff Nass, legislative affairs liaison for Wisconsin Force, said the campus carry act would give a person on campus the ability to protect him or herself from someone who chooses to misuse their size, gender or any form of a weapon. He said the act promotes student safety.
Bryan Stevenson, the author of this year’s Go Big Read book, filled Varsity Hall in Union South Monday night during a talk on mass incarceration and race.
“Just Mercy” follows Stevenson’s career and his work as the founder of the Equal Justice Initiative, an organization that defends the poor and wrongly convicted, according to the book.
The university gave out more than 5,000 copies of the book to students at convocation and more than 170 courses on campus are using the book.
UW-Madison health officials are holding a series of talks on campus about the results of a recent survey that showed more than one in four responding undergraduate women at the university have been sexually assaulted.
Should concealed weapons be permitted in buildings on college campuses? It’s a question being debated in Wisconsin after a couple GOP lawmakers put forth legislation that would allow students and staff to carry concealed guns and knives.
For months, Dane County officials and student groups have been talking with the University of Wisconsin-Madison about the need to help students navigate Wisconsin’s Voter ID law in the upcoming presidential election year.
All streets that cross State Street will be closed Saturday night for Freakfest, according to a release.
The streets will close to vehicles at 4:45 p.m., and will reopen around 3 a.m. on Sunday, officials said.
Five years ago, the experience of a Haitian student in one of Tom Eggert’s business classes triggered a chain of events. That chain has led to hundreds of Haitians and Filipinos starting and sustaining small businesses, all supported by University of Wisconsin-Madison students and Midwestern donors.
Eight-year-old Dario Alvarado-Steele huddled with his mother, Alisha, looking at a laptop screen.
Slow Food UW has brought fresh produce to University of Wisconsin-Madison students for almost a decade, but this year the organization is looking to expand its reach.
In a shared bid for improved social justice, Madison police recruits and officers from UW-Madison and Middleton for the first time are participating in Go Big Read, the university’s annual common-book program in which students, staff and faculty across campus read and study the same selection.
