Category: Campus life

Many people in Wisconsin are familiar with the leader of the popular UW Marching Band? but do they really know what it takes to live a day in the life of Mike Leckrone? a day when he?s hours away from leading the energetic performance of the band?

MADISON, Wis. ? Under fire for its involvement in a controversial ? and now suspended ? Federal Communications Commission study criticized for First Amendment creeping, the University of Wisconsin-Madison has issued a statement on behalf of its Center for Communication and Democracy, presumably to clear the air about its part in the study.

Wisconsin (WKOW) — Yana Groves has lived in the United States since 2007. But she was born in the Ukrainian city of Kharkiv.

After two and a half days among rubble, Reba Sikder lost track of whether it was day or night, enumerating her hours by the number of silenced screams around her.

Bangladeshi representatives voiced a call to action to the University of Wisconsin-Madison at a committee meeting Thursday, asking those in attendance to support a pact that would ensure rights of foreign garment workers.

Those following UW Rec Sports on twitter may have noticed, in between notices about spinning classes and Wallyball tournaments, a steady stream of tweets about the March 3-5 referendum to raise student fees by up to $102 a semester ? to $145 ? to help pay for a $223 million upgrade of recreational sports facilities.

The majority of the outage was on Madison?s East Side, but outages also were reported on the UW-Madison campus, in Fitchburg and at Capital Newspapers on Fish Hatchery Road.

A power surge rippled through the entire city of Madison shortly after noon Wednesday, leaving parts of the campus in the dark and some students trapped in elevators.

If you’re scratching your head, trying to figure out financial aid for college, the University of Wisconsin-Madison just completed a Web chat to answer parent and student questions, and the transcript is now available.

MADISON (WITI) ? It?s a multi-million dollar business, built on encouraging college students to binge drink, according to university officials.

An annual forum at UW-Madison this week will feature speakers who explore black men and their relationships with family, friends and lovers. The Black Men?s Initiative forum occurs Friday and Saturday and is free and open to the public.

Repair crews were working on a frozen water main at Memorial Union on the UW-Madison campus Monday afternoon. Users of the union were asked not to use any water in the facility from 2 p.m. to 5 p.m.

Noted: If given advance notice, many admissions offices will help arrange for a prospective student to sit in on a class, or for a family to have lunch in a dining hall, says Adele Brumfield, director of admissions and recruitment at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. If you have the opportunity to do so, Mr. Barry says to ask yourself, “Are the students paying attention? Or is there a dead look in their eyes?” You might also ask if advance plans are required to eat in a dining hall.

As Millennials lead a national shift away from driving, universities like University of Wisconsin-Madison and UW-Milwaukee are looking to become transportation innovators, according to a new report released Thursday.

This week, managing editor Troy Reeves wears his Badgers pride proudly in an interview with historian Matthew Levin. Levin, who received his PhD in History from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, is the author of Cold War University: Madison and the New Left in the Sixties (UW Press, 2013). Cold War University offers a long view of the 1960s, charting the UW-Madison?s transition from a center for military research to a hotbed of dissent, to unpack what Levin calls ?the contradictions of cold war era higher education.?

Community members have raised environmental concerns about the University of Wisconsin?s Recreational Sport?s proposed development in University Bay.

The Associated Students of Madison Diversity Committee hosted a celebration of the ?unity of identities? at Union South Tuesday.

John Shutske, who has a joint administrative appointment with the UW-Madison and UW-Extension, will begin serving as the new interim provost and vice chancellor of UW-Extension on Feb. 17.

University of Wisconsin-Madison Professor Gloria Ladson-Billings goes beyond the classroom in her quest to diminish racial disparities on and off campus.

No gold medal was at stake, but the sunshine was golden Sunday as hockey players competed on Lake Mendota during the final day of Hoofers? weeklong Winter Carnival.

Last week was really something for UW-Madison sophomore Chandler Davis, who picked the sport of boxing off the mat and got it going again on campus, to the delight of some and dismay of others

It?s a report that?s taken social media by storm; the University of Wisconsin System now considered one of the “booziest” and “druggiest” among colleges in America.

The states flagship campus is at the bottom of the Big 10 in the amount of space it devotes to student fitness, but that could change if students agree next month to pay higher fees toward a $223 million expansion.

MADISON, Wisconsin (WKOW) — Boxing is back at the University of Wisconsin after a 54 year hiatus.

After four months of restoration, a bar inside the Memorial Union will reopen Monday.

The University of Wisconsin Varsity Band is making a return appearance to the Waterloo High School gym. After a four-year absence, the band members that march at football games in Madison will perform in a concert at the school at 7 p.m. Monday, Feb. 17.

Chris Cole, University of Wisconsin-Madison Police Department director of threat intervention services, plans to hold information sessions with the goal of familiarizing the campus community with him and his new position, according to a Tuesday university press release.

Recently released data, collected in 2011, shows that many Wisconsin colleges and universities rank high in total number of alcohol and drug related offenses.

Four University of Wisconsin engineering students will compete for the chance to win $1 million in an international competition to find a way to stop the spread of diseases in urban slums.