Category: Campus life

Hip-hop group Atmosphere and indie rock band American Authors will headline the city?s eighth incarnation of Freakfest, organizers of the event announced Monday.

For the first time in the school?s history, University of Wisconsin-Madison undergraduate students will be able to register for a certificate in French.

For the second year in a row, Playboy magazine deemed the University of Wisconsin-Madison the No. 2 party school in the nation.

The QS World Universities 2014/15 rankings, published today, saw MIT maintain its position as the top-ranked university worldwide. UW-Madison is tied for 41st.

An ?Alternative Nobel?-winning Buddhist activist delivered a message with a cutting edge at the University of Wisconsin on the anniversary of the September 11 attacks.

University of Wisconsin pre-med students have more to think about as the Association of Medical American Colleges has made significant changes to the Medical College Admission Test, commonly known as the MCAT.

Coming in at number two was the University of Wisconsin, followed by West Virginia University, University of Arizona and the University of Iowa.

U.S. Sen. Tammy Baldwin, D-Wis., introduced new legislation to aid college affordability and vocational training enrollment Friday, according to a statement.

It is perhaps the least understood school on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus.

On the UW-Madison campus, 2,977 small American flags were placed on Bascom Hill, symbolizing those killed after terrorist-hijacked airplanes crashed in to the World Trade Center, the Pentagon, and a farm field in Pennsylvania. The flags were placed by the College Republicans of UW-Madison, along with College Democrats and the Vets for Vets organization.

Parents of University of Wisconsin-Madison students were warned Wednesday of a phone scam targeting their financial information.

A Fond du Lac man charged with rape on the UW-Madison campus told police he was drinking and doesn?t remember the alleged incident.

To help pay for the semester?s books or a weekend night out, many American college students hold down jobs at the campus library or gym. But when Alex Richter goes to work at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, he dons rubber boots, a white coat and a hairnet. Richter is a campus butcher.

University of Wisconsin-Madison staff will host an open house at Memorial Union?s new west wing Friday and Saturday nights to celebrate the space?s completed two-year redesign, according to a university release.

Authorities charge 21-year old Amory Waters with felony second degree sexual assault, claiming the Fond du Lac man pinned a UW-Madison student against a building and raped her after a night of drinking.

In Madison, Wisconsin, the I-Team has learned that two men are charged in a rash of separate sex attacks on or near the University of Wisconsin campus. These are the latest cases in a disturbing trend of college assaults.

UW-Madison Police are launching a new campaign, hoping to encourage victims of sexual assault to report it to police.

Authorities say surveillance video was crucial to the arrest of a Fond du Lac man for the sex assault of a 21-year old UW-Madison student.

The rosary beads next to the foosball table in Sam Gagliardi?s apartment suggest he has both fun and faith on his mind this school year. The UW-Madison junior is one of the inaugural tenants of Lumen House, the unusual campus housing project undertaken by three Downtown Madison Catholic congregations.

When you think of Madison, “fashion” is probably not the first word that comes to mind. In our extreme winters, people are focused more on practical parkas than they are on Burberry trench coats. At the UW, in particular, a student budget doesn?t usually allow for quilted Chanel totes.

How many University of Wisconsin-Madison tailgaters do you know who knock back Jell-O jigglers not laced with alcohol on game day?

The Ironman triathlon and the Wisconsin Badgers football game will have big impacts on traffic both in and out of Madison this weekend.

Noted: Most national universities are essentially the department stores of higher education. They provide a full range of goods for sale, with differences mainly in quality and price (Stanford is presumably Saks Fifth Avenue; the University of Wisconsin is perhaps Macy?s). These schools with a specialized mission are more like the funky boutiques that appeal to one particular type of customer and are certainly not for everyone ? but can be deeply satisfying to some.

In 2007 a young man was killed in a house fire on UW Madisons campus. Now his parents are still working to make sure no one else is hurt.

An Ann Arbor family is furious at the plea deal extended to a former Skyline High School student who is accused of threatening a teenage girl over an anonymous social network. (Rishi Ragsdale is a former UW-Madison student.)

Noted: “These guidelines reinforce what a lot of colleges are doing already, but it would have been nice if they?d come out two weeks ago,” when students were arriving and health centers were unsure what to do, said Craig M. Roberts, an epidemiologist with the University of Wisconsin at Madison?s student health service.

In 2007 a young man was killed in a house fire on UW Madison?s campus. Now his parents are still working to make sure no one else is hurt.

UW-Madison Police issued a new warning to students about the dangers of excessive drinking after finding a 25-year-old with a dangerously high blood alcohol content.

The quality of life is better in Madison than in every other large American city. That?s according to a study of the 100 largest U.S. cities by personal finance site NerdWallet.

Beer, wine, cheese, sausage, soy sauce, sauerkraut ? it?s not hard to think of Wisconsin as a state in which fermentation is more than just a hobby.

An intoxicated University of Wisconsin-Madison student was taken to a hospital with a blood-alcohol level more than four times the level considered proof of intoxication for motorists in Wisconsin, UW-Madison police said Friday.

Through the recession, college tuition skyrocketed at public universities to make up for flagging state funding. Some students who borrowed to keep up with rising costs face crushing debt repayments. Hari Sreenivasan travelled to Wisconsin to report on one group hoping to turn the state?s student borrowers into a powerful voting bloc.

Bucky Badger gets the smiles and high-fives. Abe Lincoln draws legions of photo-seeking graduates.

Summer vacation is coming to an end, which means university students are moving into their dorms on Wednesday and Thursday.  Several roads downtown will be down to one lane or will only be open to move-in traffic.

University of Wisconsin freshmen begin moving into the dorms this week, and with two sexual assaults taking place near campus in as many days, police are reminding students how to stay safe.