Category: Campus life

Quoted: “For me, the greatest part of the University of Wisconsin-Madison has been my experience with the Union. The Wisconsin Union Directorate WUD is the student programming board on campus responsible for planning student events like movies in our on-campus theater or concerts on the terrace. WUD also creates amazing friendships that last a lifetime. My work with the Union has given me a space on campus to learn and grow.?- Sarah Bergman, political science and history.

It?s time again for the annual mid-August moving days downtown, where thousands of students (and many others) move out of their current residences and into new places for the 2014-15 school year.

They climb on him, sit on his shoulders, kiss his cheek ? all without asking.

While out on a run last week, a student from the University of Wisconsin-Madison came across an envelope filled with cash. But, instead of pocketing the money, the runner returned the missing envelope to the police.

As thousands of leases on Madison homes and apartments turn over this week, organizers of a drive to reduce waste in the big move hope the bins at the Embassy ? and others at a dozen more high-rises ? will soon be full of those gently used and perfectly good items that are often thrown away

A UW-Madison student out for a run last week found an envelope filled with hundreds of dollars, and then did what the envelope loser probably thought wouldn?t happen: the finder turned it in to police.

Few streets Downtown, near the UW-Madison campus or on the isthmus are easy to negotiate during moving week, but East Johnson is especially difficult this year, thanks to the road construction.

Noted: Another public institution, the University of Wisconsin at Madison, dealt with a Veishea-like tradition by bringing the party on campus instead.

UW-Madison police say Robert E. Mueller, 48, was pulled over at the intersection of S. Park Street and W. Washington Avenue because his tail light wasn?t working.

University of Wisconsin ? Madison has been hailed as one of the friendliest university for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgendered students.

The CFPB named four large credit unions affiliated with universities that do not disclose financial agreements on their websites, and said they demonstrate a lack of transparency.

UW-Madison is among the nation?s most LGBT-friendly college campuses, says The Princeton Review. The campus ranked 7th in a list of the 20 most LGBT-friendly campuses, LGBTQ Nation reports.

Outdoor learning takes to Lake Mendota for two more sessions this summer in UW-Madison?s ?paddle with a professor? lecture series. The guided trips offer people a chance to learn more about the history and topography of the lake while taking in its dreamy sunset views.

Wisconsin came in No. 8 in the annual Top 20 listing of the best party schools by the Princeton Review, one of four Big Ten Conference schools to make the list.

A man who was convicted of two home invasion robberies in the Downtown and UW-Madison areas last year, and implicated in others, was sentenced Monday to six years in prison.

Fears over the deadly Ebola virus are growing, and those fears hit home for a group of UW-Madison students.

A UW-Madison staff worker was bilked out of more than $4,000 by scammers who threatened him with arrest if he didn?t pay unpaid taxes, police reported.

Graffiti is a foreign concept to the surroundings of the serene, secluded setting of Picnic Point on the UW-Madison campus, but police investigators are trying to find who is responsible for tagging the surface of a fire circle at the location.

For visitors to Madison, whether they?re parents of UW students or in town on business, the Memorial Union Terrace is an essential stop: Lake Mendota, boats, ice cream, brats and beer, with perhaps some live music and a beautiful sunset to boot. It?s not hard to understand why the place is so iconic — a summer evening at the Terrace seems to sum up Madison?s vital essence.

Johannesburg – Comment was not immediately available on a Sunday Times report that senior member of the ANC and MP Pallo Jordan did not have the academic qualifications he claimed to have.

The vandalism was reported on Wednesday, and most likely happened between Tuesday afternoon and Wednesday afternoon, UW-Madison police said in a news release.

University of Wisconsin-Madison police said taggers have caused more than $1,500 in damage to Picnic Point.

The University of Wisconsin-Madison Police Department is seeking help to solve a case of graffiti sprayed on one of the fire pits at the popular Picnic Point on the shores of Lake Mendota.

Seely left the State Journal in 2013 after 34 years to teach journalism at UW-Madison and to work part-time at the Wisconsin Center for Investigative Journalism.

Plus: DeLuca retiring after four decades

Articles by Professor W. Lee Hansen at the Pope Center site and by John Leo here at Minding the Campus attracted wide attention last week by deploring a suggestion in a diversity report at the University of Wisconsin-Madison that called for, among other things, the ?proportional participation? of underrepresented racial/ethnic groups ?in the distribution of grades.? Here two UW professors, Donald A. Downs, a frequent contributor to Minding the Campus, and David Canon, disagree with the Hansen-Leo assessment, and Professor Hansen replies.

Word had begun to circulate that the College Barber Shop will close when its current lease expires at the end of August. Ryan Osborn, whose family has owned the building for decades, gave Cobb the word late last week.

The Hoofer Sailing Club is celebrating 75 years this weekend. The group, which meets down at U.W. Madison?s Memorial Union, has been around since 1939.

Liu Baicheng, an 81-year-old professor of mechanical engineering at Tsinghua University, is happy to recall his 1978 arrival in New York, an occasion that opened the floodgates to 35 years of booming academic exchange between China and the United States.

Deborah K. Fitzgerald, the Kenan Sahin Dean of MIT?s School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences (SHASS), has announced that Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Deborah Blum will join MIT in 2015 as the director of Knight Science Journalism at MIT, a fellowship program that enables world-class journalists to spend a year at MIT studying everything from science, technology, and engineering to history of science, literature, policy, and political science.

University of Wisconsin-Madison ranks 25th among the best universities in the world in a new list released this week by the Center for World University Rankings.