Category: Campus life

The University of Wisconsin Police Department is investigating a reported sexual assault on campus Saturday night, according to a release.

UW-Madison police are currently investigating a reported sexual assault outside of a campus academic building Saturday night, according to a UW-Madison Police Department report.

TRENTON – You think the attractive woman at the party who has been chatting you up all night is ready to take things to the next level? She seems to be throwing all the right signals.

Noted: The Badger Herald, one of the student papers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, had some fun collecting some of the many tweets Walker has sent out about — ham.

Students at University of Wisconsin-Madison are trying to open an on-campus food pantry to assist students forced to choose between buying food and paying the rent.

Five more criminal charges were filed Thursday against a former UW-Madison student who allegedly tried to extort three women for sex using ads on Craigslist in which he pretended to be a woman.

“Madison has a tremendous venue for athletics, tremendous venues for the arts,” says David Nelson, a UW professor emeritus of biology. But aside from a few small UW departmental museums, “There really isn’t a place to go and hear and see about the history of science in Wisconsin.”

Noted: It’s kind of what the campus police at the University of Wisconsin-Madison were thinking when they e-mailed what they thought were helpful safety tips such as, “If you present yourself as easy prey, then expect to attract some wolves.”

Interactive page showing enrollment by high school.

The University of Wisconsin-Madison has to feed lots of people. On average, some 14,500 meals are served in the dormitory dining halls alone, every day.

Noted: A spokesman for the University of Wisconsin-Madison tells TheDC that Gruber was paid $4,990 for his speech there in Oct. 2013. The school also paid $1,126.90 for travel and lodging for Gruber. The spokesman said that the money came from a private endowment and not the school itself.

I spent three days at the University of Wisconsin Madisons Center for Dairy Research tasting cheese — at least 80 different kinds.

Noted: Imani and Smith held one another in an emotional embrace at the University of Wisconsin-Madison Law School on Tuesday — a reunion brokered by the law schools Restorative Justice Project.

More than 100 applicants who were denied admission to Wisconsins flagship public university have contacted a legal group that sued Harvard and the University of North Carolina Monday over affirmative action practices, the groups director said Tuesday.

The “Jeopardy!” run for Hollander Mark Japinga is over — he went into Final Jeopardy in third place, bet it all and lost.

For the eighth consecutive year, the University of Wisconsin-Madison ranked among the top 10 U.S. universities and colleges in the number of students who study abroad in the latest annual Open Doors Report on International Educational Exchange released Monday.

The UW Band is used to marching to the same beat. On Saturday, they were in sync to support a different cause.

Two University of Wisconsin-Madison graduates have given the school $100 million, the largest gift from individual donors in the school’s history.

Leslie Bellaistalked about some of the artifacts related to the August 24, 1970 bombing at Sterling Hall on the University of Wisconsin – Madison campus.?The bombers targeted the building because it housed the Army Mathematics Research Center, which conducted research for the military during the Vietnam War.?The blast killed researcher Robert Fassnacht and wounded several others.

Betting only $1,103 in Final Jeopardy caused Holland native Mark Japinga to lose his strong lead — and the game.

Susan Riseling talked about her book, A View from the Interior: Policing the Protests at the Wisconsin State Capitol, in which she discusses the collective bargaining protests in Madison, Wisconsin, in 2011. She is the Chief of Police at the University of Wisconsin – Madison, and explained her role during the protests.

The University of Wisconsin’s College of Letters and Sciences has developed a new initiative to help students find an answer to the time old question of, “what the hell are you going to do with a degree in [insert humanities major here]?”

Noted: Several years ago, Vijay Dixit’s 19-year old daughter, Shreya Dixit, was the victim of a distracted driving crash while riding as a passenger on her way home from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Vijay Dixit said the driver wasn’t texting, but that his family’s loss is a reminder of how distracted driving can take many forms.

A new study, conducted by the Wisconsin HOPE Lab, is shedding more light on the many ways students across the country are struggling financially to pay the high price tag on education.

UW-Madison senior Zach Wood declared Wednesday he is running for the open District 8 aldermanic position in an effort to bring a student perspective to city politics.

Pursuing a diverse, collaborative future was the focus of UW-Madison’s 16th annual campus Diversity Forum, held Nov. 10 and 11.

In honor of Veterans Day, groups at University of Wisconsin came together Tuesday to participate in events including a flag raising ceremony at Camp Randall and the annual roll call on Bascom Hill.

Holland High School graduate Mark Japinga will be back on the popular game show “Jeopardy!” on Friday, Nov. 14, for the show’s Tournament of Champions.

The University of Wisconsin and police community came together at the annual Diversity Forum on Monday, seeking to strengthen trust between citizens and police officers through a discussion of affirmative action and diversity.

A developer is proposing a twin-tower, 185-unit apartment project rising up to 10 stories near the Kohl Center, but the redevelopment won’t include an intercity bus facility once eyed for the site.

The University of Wisconsin Union has a problem — its colorful metal chairs are being stolen.

University of Wisconsin’s Lakeshore path and dormitories are known today as the quiet side of campus, but during World War II, the area was known for being home to military servicemen.

Noted: “It’s an absolute safety concern,” said Marc Lovicott, a campus police spokesman at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where a white quadcopter swooped into 80,000-seat Camp Randall Stadium and buzzed over the student section during an Oct. 11 game against Illinois. “You never know what might be carried along with something like that.”

The resolution, if approved, also would start making good on a “priority recommendation,” Verveer said, in a Downtown Plan approved more than two years ago by the City Council to build a park in the area of Downtown adjacent to the UW-Madison campus, west of North Broom Street and north of West Washington Avenue.

As students exhaust themselves with late nights at the library in the midst of midterm season, one UW-Madison undergraduate combats an entirely different source of stress.