The University of Wisconsin System Sexual Assault and Violence Task Force met with Sen. Tammy Baldwin (D- Wisconsin) Friday afternoon.
The conversation focused on how congress can help universities deal with on campus sex assaults. A recent survey of women at UW-Madison found one in four reported experiencing a sexual assault. Friday’s meeting centered around ways to tackle the problem.
Noted: On the University of Wisconsin campus, the Hoofer’s Club held its annual snowboard and ski re-sale. Organizer Mitchell Beres said fewer people have stopped by to buy with no snow on the ground.
“It’s definitely a little difficult to have that mentality and that preemptive mindset,” he said.
Last year, the sale raised more than $400,000. Beres estimated the organization would bring in around $350,000 this year.
(Video) Students across the country are upset with a bill that would change the way sexual assaults are reported on campus. Velena Jones reports.
A sign has been sitting at the corner of Lake and University Streets in downtown Madison for years, announcing the site of a new UW-Madison School of Music building.
Now, a large gift from the Wisconsin Rapids-based Mead Witter Foundation will allow the sign to finally come down next fall and construction to begin on a new building that will house both music classrooms and a large concert hall.
“This was proposed before the 2008 financial crisis and we had some wonderful, generous donors, but the fundraising effort stalled out for some time,” Director of Jazz Studies at UW-Madison Johannes Wallmann said. “Even the most optimistic among us thought it might be decades away.”
The president of the University of Wisconsin’s Muslim Student Association applauded the part President Barack Obama’s terrorism speech making clear ISIS did not speak for Islamic faith followers.
“President Obama is telling people to not give into the fear,” said Hani Rustom. “That is when he said ‘that’s exactly what ISIS wants.’ I think he hit it right on the head, because ISIS wants that fear so that people have that anti-Muslim sentiment. That if we, as an American community unite against that sort of thing, I think it will go a long way.”
The Mead Witter Foundation is giving $25 million to University of Wisconsin-Madison to support the building of a music performance venue, writes the Wisconsin State Journal. The donation will allow construction to begin next fall of a 680-seat concert hall, the larger of two performance spaces at the planned Hamel Music Center.
“Just Bust!” is billed as the longest-running open mic in Madison. It is a monthly event hosted by the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Office of Multicultural Arts Initiatives.
When one of America’s first graduate-student unions was recognized at the University of Wisconsin at Madison, in 1969, organizers embraced a key principle: Graduate assistants should get equal pay for equal work. (Login may be required.)
The foundation of two families that have a long history with the University of Wisconsin has donated $25 million to the UW-Madison School of Music, according to a release.
The 64-year-old Mead Witter Foundation’s gift will provide major funding for the school of music’s new performance building, which is slated to be built at the corner of University Avenue and Lake Street, officials said.
Noted: It used to be that stellar academics, a nice campus and perhaps an array of extracurricular activities were all a university needed to attract students. Now you might have to add a good social media presence to the list. If that’s the case, the University of Wisconsin-Madison is in good shape. The state’s flagship university has one of the best college Twitter accounts according to HubSpot, a marketing software platform. Wisconsin ranked No. 4 on the list.
UW-Madison students will speak Thursday in support of a Dane County Board resolution calling on UW-Madison to alter student identification cards to put them in compliance with state Voter ID laws.
Computer science classes, once the exclusive realm of computer geeks planning careers at software companies, are fast becoming part of the mainstream college experience.
There’s endless data and statistics that tell the story of what it’s like to be an African-American student at a predominantly white college. Those numbers across the nation paint a dismal picture.
There was something fishy about the dozens and dozens of coconut doughnuts delivered this week to the campus police at the University of Wisconsin, Madison.
Race issues on U.S. college campuses continue to be contentious again after the appearance of Facebook pages (some apparently phony) for “white student union” groups founded to counter recent anti-racism protests.
Quoted: Research shows graduation rates fall for students of color when they’re forced to pursue their collegiate education in a hostile environment.
“That struggle has been true on every campus I’ve been on as a student and a professor,” said Gloria Ladson-Billings, a professor in curriculum and education at UW-Madison, who has also been at the University of Washington, Stanford University, and Santa Clara University. “It’s not always overt racism, either. They tend to be what is identified now as ‘micro-aggression’ or what is called ‘1,000 tiny cuts.’ Constantly little things. It’s constantly seeing the inequitable ways things play out on campus. That’s a frustration the students are facing.”
“I just hate to see students come out of the university as survivors rather than thrivers,” she said. “But that is the reality.”
Ashley Thomas, a Harlem native and senior at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, never thought she’d end up in the Midwest.When she started looking for schools, she was interested in diversity. But according to UW’s website, over 70% of the school’s students identify as white. So, why did Ashley choose UW? Because of a hip-hop and urban arts program called First Wave. UW is the only school in the country with anything like it.
A man who was kicked out of Camp Randall Stadium during Saturday’s Wisconsin football game let UW-Madison police know he wasn’t happy about what happened — but that there were no hard feelings — by sending them 240 coconut doughnuts on Monday.
In 1966, an “American Graffiti” atmosphere was giving way to the tumult of the Vietnam War era on the UW campus in Madison. Many of these photos from that year are from the UW-Madison Archives.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison Police Department received a strange, anonymous delivery of 20 dozen coconut doughnuts on Monday, the department posted on Facebook.
A California man sent 20 dozen coconut doughnuts to police officers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison as payback for getting kicked out of a Badger football game.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison Alumni Association has sent an email to parents of current students telling them how to lobby on a bill allowing concealed weapons in campus buildings.
The email, sent Friday morning, tells parents about the bill and why UW System leaders oppose it. There’s no explicit request to lobby against the bill, but the email encourages families to discuss campus safety and the impact the legislation might have on learning.
(Video) Officials say a winter storm rolling through Southern Wisconsin Friday evening will cause increased wait times at Saturday’s Badger football game, as traffic moves slower and security personnel search fans’ coats. Dannika Lewis reports.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison alumni group has sent an email to parents of current students telling them how to lobby on a bill that would allow concealed weapons in campus building.
The UW Alumni Association sent the message Friday morning. The email tells parents about the bill and how UW System leaders oppose it. The message doesn’t explicitly ask parents to lobby against the measure but encourages families to discuss campus safety and the impact the legislation might have on learning.
The recent terrorist attacks in Paris and across the Middle East are weighing heavily on some international students at the University of Wisconsin as they prepare to experience their first Thanksgiving meal thanks to a citywide volunteer program.
UW-Madison students were joined by community activists Thursday in demanding that the university divest itself of investments in fossil fuel companies to support efforts to slow the pace of climate change.
There’s endless data and statistics that tell the story of what it’s like to be an African-American student at a predominantly white college. Those numbers across the nation paint a dismal picture.
Friday and Saturday’s winter storm brought about 4 inches of snow to Madison. With snowfall ending around noon Saturday, crews did not have time to clear seating sections before the 2:30 p.m. game against Northwestern. Fifty people were ejected from the stadium for throwing snowballs and other hard objects, according to UW-Madison police.
The state’s two public doctoral research universities are stepping up efforts to more effectively compete for top graduate students who play key roles in research and teaching undergraduates.
Colin Higgins of the University of Wisconsin-Madison has been named a Rhodes Scholar, the university announced Saturday.
Sunday’s event on the sixth floor of UW-Madison’s Humanities Building on Park Street was its 11th outing since 2008. By midday, it was on pace to attract about 100 people.
A University of Wisconsin-Madison student said Sunday he plans to use his Rhodes scholarship to study how governments can better focus their environmental policies on meeting people’s needs.
A swarm of UW-Madison students and community members, led by the student organization Climate Action 350 and its city affiliate 350 Madison, protested in front of Chancellor Rebecca Blank’s office Thursday to demand the divestment from fossil fuels.
Divestment would include the university and the UW Foundation taking all the money that is invested in fossil fuels, which scientists have attributed as a cause of global warming, and putting that money into ethical and sustainable entities, according to the organization. Once it is removed, Climate Action 350 will have no control over where it is placed, but will have suggestions of what would be better.
A man once blacklisted from the silver screen is making a return. He’s Dalton Trumbo, one of the most famous screen writers of all time. A new movie chronicling his life is set to be released later this month. While many know him for his films, he actually has a tie to Madison.
“Not many people get to be down here,” said Mary Huelsbeck as she leads us to the basement of the Wisconsin Historical Society. There, more than 20,000 films are stored as part of the Wisconsin Center for Film and Theater Research, WCFTR.
The University of Wisconsin announced there will be an increased police and security presence at Saturday’s football game versus Northwestern.
Madison is under a winter storm watch starting Friday evening and ending at 3 p.m. Saturday, not long after the 2:42 p.m. kickoff, with the forecast calling for a snow accumulation of between 4 inches and 7 inches.
UW-Madison students were joined by community activists Thursday in demanding that the university divest itself of investments in fossil fuel companies to support efforts to slow the pace of climate change.
Members of the Teaching Assistants’ Association gripped posters and picket signs on top of a blustery Bascom Hill Wednesday, chanting “We are the TAA, we deserve fair grad pay.”
The first graduate student employee union in the nation, TAA formed in 1966 due to a lack of representation in educational policy.
UW-Madison administration announced a new policy Tuesday that will adjust the rate of pay to set a stipend amount for research assistants.
Every chief of police in the University of Wisconsin System opposes a proposal in the Legislature to allow concealed carry permit holders to bring weapons into college and university buildings, the law enforcement officials said this week.
By a show of hands in two classes Monday, Andrew Kydd helped illustrate why last week’s terror attacks in Paris have resonated so profoundly across the United States.Kydd, a political science professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and an expert on terrorism and nuclear arms, is teaching undergraduate classes on each topic this semester.
About 100 University of Wisconsin-Madison graduate students and their supporters rallied outside Bascom Hall Wednesday to demand that Chancellor Rebecca Blank scrap a change in how they are paid for their work as assistants, a measure they say will amount to unequal pay for equal work.
For the second year in a row, Professor Kydd’s Terrorism 319 class is full.
Once again, more than 60 students and auditors alike are filling up the special political science class at UW Madison.
The emphasis is on the headlines. This week, the Paris Terror Attack is the topic. And this year, Professor Kydd says more than 2/3’ds of his class have ties to the Paris.
Dozens of graduate students crowded around Bascom Hall on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus Wednesday afternoon to protest the university’s new payment policy for graduate assistants.
A record number of University of Wisconsin-Madison students are studying abroad.
UW-Madison officials are planning several changes to how graduate students are paid, including new rules that let departments decide how much money their research, teaching and project assistants make, and limit how many hours those students can work.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison is well positioned to work with African-American students on campus climate and other race-related concerns, chancellor Rebecca Blank said Monday. “We do have students who experience real isolation on this campus. The question is what we can do to reduce those experiences,” Blank told members of the University Committee, the executive committee of the Faculty Senate.
Sometimes, the easiest way to gather a collection of historical papers is to simply ask.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison would have been better off if graduate students had been included in the process of developing a new pay scheme for their work as assistants, says Graduate School Dean William Karpus.
As the refugee debate continues in America, some note that a Syrian migrant living in Northern Nevada had a part in helping change the world. That man was Steve Job’s biological father.
Noted: Panelists included Madison Laning, ASM chair; Sara Goldrick-Rab, professor of educational policy; Noel Radomski, director of Wisconsin Center for the Advancement of Postsecondary Education (WISCAPE); and Scot Ross, director of One Wisconsin Now (non-UW).
The Multicultural Student Center hopes to equip University of Wisconsin Police Department with the proper tools to combat issues of racial biases in a new training initiative program.
Racial biases against students and community members of color have sparked a conversation between UWPD and the student center about how biases should be addressed.
The French House, near the UW-Madison campus, hosted a gathering in solidarity with the people of France on Monday evening.
UW students and staff members, many of whom have ties to France, said coming together helped them cope with last week’s attacks in Paris, which killed roughly 130 people and were carried out by militants of the Islamic State terror group.
Some Muslim UW-Madison students take personally moves by Governor Walker and other governors to try to suspend the resettlement of refugees from war-torn Syria to the U.S.
“I understand people’s concerns that they don’t want the terrorism attacks that happened in Paris to come back and happen here in the U.S.,” Syrian-American and UW-Madison student Rama Shoukfeh says. Authorities say one of the Paris terrorist suspects had credentials as a refugee from Syria.
Andrew Irving never imagined so many people would show their support in Madison.
“What’s been nice is the unexpected messages we get from people we barely know just saying we want to reach out and say we’re sorry or we’re thinking of you,” Irving said.
Irving, director of the University of Wisconsin-Madison French House, decided the community needed a place to come together to mourn and stand in solidarity.
The state capital joins Boulder and Fort Collins, Colo., Davis, Calif. and Portland, Ore. as the only cities to earn that distinction. The University of Wisconsin-Madison reached gold status in the league’s Bicycle Friendly University program earlier this month.
According to the authorized Steve Jobs biography written by Walter Isaacson, in the early 1950s, Jandali went to study at the American University in Beirut, and eventually on to the University of Wisconsin.
Noted: Andrew Irving, Director of the French House in Madison, said the attacks have taken a toll on locals who study and immerse themselves in French culture, as well as on French students currently living here in Madison.
“Emotions were very high Friday and also on Saturday. A lot of people just didn’t know what to think,” Irving said.
Irving said the French House, a private residence hall run by the UW-Madison’s Department of French and Italian, houses both American and French students.
“All of our residents speak French here almost all of the time,” Irving said.
The University of Wisconsin has issued a release detailing how running back Corey Clement suffered a cut to his hand following an assault at his off-campus apartment early Sunday morning.
According to the release, Clement was returning to his apartment building when he witnessed a dispute between a security guard and a group of people. Clement stepped in to the dispute. According to UW, Clement and the security guard were then assaulted by the individuals.
A developer is proposing to demolish the hulking creme and brown brick structure at 126 Langdon St. — once a private student residence hall — and replace it with a market-rate student housing tower of roughly the same height and size.
The “Black Out” march that amassed up to 600 UW-Madison students and their allies to protest marginalization of college students of color is just the beginning, rally organizer Kenneth Cole said Friday. Cole said he has worked with Young, Gifted and Black — a grassroots community group — to form a new organization, the Black Leadership Action Coalition, that will plan and carry out actions on the UW-Madison campus.
