At a pep rally Wednesday, several thousand anxious fans filled about three-quarters of the Kohl Center’s lower seating bowl to catch a last glimpse of the Badgers before they left for the Final Four.
Four local workers — in fast food, retail, home care and food service at UW-Madison — told their stories Tuesday outside the McDonald’s restaurant on Regent Street during an announcement of plans for local one-day strikes and marches.
Gee, Toto, it sure won’t look like Kansas when UW-Madison’s Varsity Band gets a hold of “The Wizard of Oz.” The iconic fantasy musical will be the featured songfest at the band’s 41st annual concert, April 16, 17 and 18 at the Kohl Center.
With last year’s University of Wisconsin basketball team Final Four apparel suddenly out of date, many fans — particularly those away from campus — are buying up Badgers T-shirts, caps and sweatshirts for this year’s title run.
Fans are invited to help the Badgers celebrate their trip to the Final Four this week. The UW Athletic Department is planning a fan celebration at the Kohl Center on Wednesday to send off the team to Indianapolis.
Badgers fans sitting on bus stops and climbing trees in celebration were common sights last year on State street. This year–as the Badgers prepare to take on Arizona again, local law enforcement is preparing for yet another big crowd.
Hundreds of University of Wisconsin men’s basketball fans packed into State Street taverns and turned March Madness up several notches Saturday night, ecstatic by their team returning to the NCAA men’s tournament’s Final Four next week.
If you’re not a University of Wisconsin men’s basketball donor or season-ticket holder, UW doesn’t have a ticket for you for Saturday night’s NCAA Final Four semifinal rematch with Kentucky in Indianapolis.
UW–Madison Social Media Specialist Nate Moll talked to the Cap Times about how he got his job as the “thumbs of UW-Madison” and how he tries to bring “inspired goofiness” to his work.
Moving from its first to second phase, the Memorial Union Reinvestment project will focus on exterior changes, like reviving Alumni Park and “overhauling” the Terrace, causing it to close from the beginning of September until summer 2016, Marketing & Communications Coordinator for the Memorial Union Reinvestment Anna Johnson said.
Badger fans who gathered at Union South to watch Thursday night’s game against North Carolina rose to their feet and cheered as the final seconds ticked off the clock and Wisconsin punched its ticket to the Elite Eight of the NCAA tournament.
Anna Johnson, marketing and communications coordinator for the Memorial Union reinvestment project, told News 3 that the west end of the terrace adjacent to the remodeled theater will remain open during the project, and the new terrace area will open early in the summer of 2016.
In their matching gray #SaveOurUW T-shirts, members of the Associated Students of Madison traveled to the Joint Finance Committee hearing Thursday to vocalize their concerns over Gov. Scott Walker’s proposed state budget.
2015 Wisconsin Film Festival preview. Screenings will be held at various campus locations April 9-15.
Like it or not, professors have been thrown into the “deep end of the pool” of politics, state Rep. Terese Berceau told a group of academics at UW-Madison Wednesday.
Noted: The student teams arrived in Milwaukee on Tuesday and presented their proposals to Kohls executives at the corporate headquarters in Menomonee Falls on Wednesday. Besides Indiana, students came from the University of Wisconsin – Madison, Penn State University, Texas State University, the University of Arizona, Florida State University, Iowa State University, Michigan State University, Northern Illinois University, San Diego State University, Virginia Tech and Washington State University.
Nate Moll has the capability to reach thousands, perhaps millions, all over the world. All it takes is less than 140 characters and the click of a button. He’s the social media specialist at University Wisconsin-Madison.
The Committee on Student Organizations received a report on Feb. 4 alleging possible acts of misconduct by members of Sigma Chi, according to the release.
Sigma Chi on the UW-Madison campus is suspended for the remainder of the school year for violating the University’s Registered Student Organization Code of Conduct, according to Eric Knueve, director of the Center for Leadership and Involvement.
The 2015 UW-Madison Writers’ Institute intends to show aspiring writers that there are many more out there, all grappling with the same things.
A UW Madison fraternity has been suspended for the rest of the semester after violating their probation by throwing a party.
PROFS, a lobbying organization for UW-Madison faculty, will zero in on Scott Walker’s game-changing budget plans for the UW System at a free public forum Wednesday.
On college campuses nationwide, the intertwined problems of sexual assault and alcohol are under intense scrutiny as students increasingly speak up and the federal government cracks down. Pushed to a collective moment of reckoning, colleges and universities are trying a slew of solutions focused on education, environment and enforcement.
A former UW-Madison student received a suspended prison sentence Friday for trying to coerce women into having sex with him by threatening to post their nude pictures and contact information on the Internet.
Column by Robert Wolfe, a UW-Madison sophomore and WISPIRG campaign coordinator.
A Storify compilation of the tweets from Friday morning.
They’d gladly boot every fraternity off campus tomorrow if they thought they could get away with it. But for now they are content to pick them off one by one.
A bracket-style look at the relative academic progress and graduation rates of the 68 teams in the 2015 NCAA men’s basketball tournament provides a glimpse at how well schools are supporting their athletes in their pursuit of a college education off the basketball court.
Chinese college students who come to the U.S. hope to learn about American culture, make foreign friends, and perfect their English.
Cecilia Miao, a Guangzhou-born student who graduated last May from the University of Wisconsin at Madison, wanted to do something to get the students to meet somewhere between the hotpot and the pizza.
One of the most significant changes is the new four-person panel put in place to further review any unresolved disputes between employees and HR, said Patrick Sheehan, director of Workforce Relations for the Office of Human Resources. This panel will consist of two representatives from UW staff and two administration representatives, he said.
Employees recognized as Classified Staff will be known as University Staff starting July 1 partly because human resource policies will soon be handled solely by UW-Madison, according to a UW-Madison release.
University of Wisconsin Police had six reports of sex assault in 2014, up from three reports in 2013. But spokesman Marc Lovicott says despite the increase in reports, he knows sex assaults are under-reported according to national statistics.
Rates for student and faculty parking permits will not change for the 2015-’16 school year, according to a press release from UW Transportation Services.
UW-Madison police found no danger inside Memorial Union early Friday morning after shutting down the surrounding area for several hours due to a bomb threat.
There was nothing found after a bomb threat on the UW campus early Friday morning. E-mail and text alerts went out to students and faculty around midnight telling them to avoid the area around Memorial Union because of the threat. That block of Langdon Street was closed while police investigated.
Chi Phi, one of the oldest fraternities on campus, is accused of “fostering a dangerous hazing environment” after a new member came forward in January with allegations.
Chi Phi Alumni President Russ Lein tells 27 News he’s been working with students ever since finding out about an investigation into misconduct this school year.
Police have reportedly given the all-clear after an early Friday morning bomb threat at UW-Madisons Memorial Union, according to Channel 3000.
Before UW-Madison’s percussion students head off en masse to China, they want to celebrate where they’ve come from.
UW-Madison police are continuing to investigate a bomb threat made early Friday at the Memorial Union, a threat that closed the facility and area streets for several hours before reopening a few hours later.
Images of photocopied cats have been popping up around a University of Wisconsin library, but the felines in the pictures were almost certainly not photocopied there.
UW-Madison terminated the Chi Phi fraternity chapter Wednesday after allegations of hazing.
Thousands of young people are heading to the UW-Madison campus this weekend, but not for the state high school basketball tournament.
A fraternity at UW-Madison has been terminated as a student organization, after an investigation found that chapter leaders “permitted and fostered a dangerous hazing environment” and allowed actions which “seriously threatened the health and safety” of new members.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison announced on Wednesday that it’s terminating a fraternity chapter after an investigation found evidence of hazing by the group.
Kerry Emanuel, professor of atmospheric science at MIT, will deliver the sixth Len Robock Annual Lecture on March 24 at 7 p.m., in the DeLuca Forum in the Discovery Building. The lecture is free and open to the public.
Evidence of hazing — including food deprivation and stints of hooded isolation — prompted the University of Wisconsin-Madison on Wednesday to terminate the Chi Phi fraternity chapter as a student organization.
The Chi Phi fraternity chapter at the University of Wisconsin-Madison has been terminated as a student organization after a university investigation found the organization hazed members.
UW-Madison said Wednesday that it shut down a fraternity for the first time since 2006 after learning of a hazing weekend in December that included a freshman pledge suffering a concussion when an older member hit his head accidentally as the freshman lay in a closed crate meant to simulate a grave, a university official said.
After investigating an initial report in January, the dean of students found the chapter had “engaged in food deprivation and stints of hooded isolation,” along with other instances that endangered or put new members’ health at risk during initiation practices in December, according to the statement.
University of Wisconsin basketball fans on Monday quickly bought up the school’s modest allotment of tickets for the Badgers’ NCAA tournament game Friday in Nebraska, sending many fans scurrying to the pricey secondary market.
UW students have lofty ambitions for the Badger Men’s Basketball team after Wisconsin defeated Michigan State in the Big Ten Tournament title game Sunday afternoon.
Police have issued a warrant for Feng, who was also a UW-Madison student at the time.
Madison police are investigating reported shots fired outside of JD’s Restaurant near the UW-Madison campus early Sunday morning.
Jim Dast’s life has been books, but the other day, he found himself talking numbers. It couldn’t be helped. Dast was trying to quantify his work over the past decade managing the biannual book sale of the Friends of the UW-Madison Libraries, the largest used-book sale in Wisconsin.
For many students of color on campus in particular, the shooting feels close to home. At the same time, the event has sparked many to recommit to work for racial justice in the community.
Video segment about Wheelhouse Studios on the UW campus letting people use art to react to the police shooting of Tony Robinson.
The Dean of Students Office invited UW-Madison students to give feedback on proposed changes to the UW System’s policy on sexual assault and other misconduct Thursday.
UW professor David Bordwell and the UW Cinematheque invited Pewaukee native and UW alum David Koepp to Madison to screen three of his films, during which he discussed his inspiration and challenges throughout his career.
Column about the community center by Megan Stefkovich, a freshman majoring in biology.
