20 years ago, 70 people were taken to the hospital after a stampede at Camp Randall. A woman in the student section at the time says she still gets nervous when she sees crowds trying to rush the field.
When the Badgers play football at Camp Randall Stadium, over 80,000 fans pack the stadium, but 20 years ago the fan experience was shaken to the core.
Nicolet College transfer students to UW-Madison will now have a way to finish their Nicolet Associate Degree.
A majority of University of Wisconsin-Madison students have never seen the Hagenah fountain in Library Mall turned on, nor have they been able to walk directly through the space on their way to Memorial Union, and it is unlikely that they will be able to see or do these things anytime soon.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison is set to offer a day of Paralympic sports and activities this weekend.
Noted: I never had the opportunity to meet Roberto Sánchez, but my girlfriend Alma Gonzalez and my friend Juan Lopez both took classes from him. He’s one of those legends on campus as the first Mexicano professor at UW-Madison,? Zúñiga tells The Madison Times in an interview at her home on Madison’s north side. ?I think he’s from Corpus Christi, [Texas] ? that’s our neck of the woods. To do what he did during that time period, it was a big deal for that generation.
Campus police at the University of Wisconsin-Madison have issued a warning about excessive drinking after two students were found passed out with life-threatening levels of blood alcohol.
UW-Madison police said Monday that a disturbing trend of life-threatening levels of intoxication among students is continuing, with two students found unconscious Saturday due to excessive drinking.
Cheering crowds dressed in a variety of costumes greeted talk show host Ellen DeGeneres when she brought her daily talk show to Madison Monday.
Ruth Ozeki, the author of this year?s Go Big Read book, gave a lecture titled ?How to be a Better Time Being? to 1,200 audience members at Union South Monday, as part of the Distinguished Lecture Series.
Ruth Ozeki, author of ?A Tale For the Time Being,? the University of Wisconsin?s Go Big Read Book for 2013, spoke on how to bring the novel?s central theme of living in the moment into everyday practice at an event on campus Monday.
Following the presence of flamingos, penis-shaped objects sprung up on Bascom Hill last week. Similarly cheeky flyers have also graced campus buildings and caught students? attentions.
Less than a day after Halloween weekend came to a close, Madison residents and University of Wisconsin students dressed in costumes once again for their chance to impress talk show host Ellen DeGeneres Monday.
The UW-Madison Police Department says officers came across extremely dangerous drinking behavior over the Halloween weekend.
Campus police at the University of Wisconsin-Madison have issued a warning about excessive drinking after two students were found passed out with life-threatening levels of blood alcohol.
Campus police at the University of Wisconsin-Madison have issued a warning about excessive drinking after two students were found passed out with life-threatening levels of blood alcohol.
The alarm clock went off at 5 a.m. last Wednesday, about 12 hours since Tuesday night?s football practice ended in the McClain Center. In less than two hours, Derek Watt would be back inside McClain for an early morning practice, the first of its kind this season.
On Thursday, Oct. 24, David Hookstead, the self-proclaimed and self-promoting ?creator? of UW Confessions, authored a letter to the editor containing his list of safety suggestions for our campus.
A developer is proposing an eight-story housing, retail and transit project near the Kohl Center that would offer a new home for Greyhound and other intercity buses.
Ye Du and Cecilia Miao arrived in Madison four years ago feeling alone and anxious, knowing almost no one, not trusting their English and lacking basic knowledge of their new home.
Though crowded, State Street remained relatively calm this weekend for Freakfest 2013.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison plans to display a collection of photographs chronicling a century of changes in China?s landscapes next month.
Madison police are investigating whether a suspect in an armed robbery Wednesday is linked to dozens of similar crimes.
With the University of Wisconsin?s spring catalog now live, students who want to bite off something different will be able to take a course that explores vampire legends.
Lingering questions related to UW-Madison?s change next spring from four weekend graduation ceremonies indoors at the Kohl Center to one outdoors at Camp Randall Stadium:
All my life up until college I attended private, Catholic schools. And subsequently, relatively similar students have surrounded me all my academic life ? students from affluent families with similar beliefs and of similar ethnicity. This is not to say I do not appreciate the life lessons and values a religious education has to offer, but the system certainly has drawbacks. Growing up, the majority of people around me considered themselves good Catholic citizens, believed abortion, homosexuality and contraception are serious sins and, of course, preferred that sweet and sour mix of Bud Light and twangy, unnecessarily nationalistic country music.
College students at UW-Madison are making up to $1,000 a month with a new on-campus job opportunity.
A bratwurst placed suggestively between two ketchup cups. Two cupcakes nestled side by side. These decorations, among others, adorned UW-Madison?s Bascom Hill on Oct. 18 ? giving a sly wink to the parts of the human anatomy they resembled.
City officials said there will be no major procedural changes to Freakfest policing this year, and Frank Productions thanked students for their unprecedented role in organizing this year?s annual State Street Halloween bash at a press conference Wednesday.
It?s back: Badgers graduating in spring 2014 will be walking across the stage in a single ceremony at Camp Randall.
A recently-appointed member of a bipartisan budget committee, U.S. Sen. Tammy Baldwin visited the University of Wisconsin campus Tuesday to meet with professors and researchers affected by funding issues created from budget crises.
The list of 20 secondary violations submitted by the University of Wisconsin to the NCAA for 2012-13 includes two references to social media.
It?s back: Badgers graduating in spring 2014 will be walking across the stage in a single ceremony at Camp Randall.
UW-Madison Chancellor Rebecca Blank plans to consolidate graduation ceremonies this spring into a single event at Camp Randall, the university revealed Wednesday.
Madison?s annual Halloween celebration on State Street appears to be turning another corner with this year?s Freakfest.
After nearly a quarter-century away, UW-Madison?s graduation ceremony will return next spring to Camp Randall Stadium, a move that will consolidate nearly 6,000 graduates and 40,000 guests at the same outdoor event, scheduled for noon on May 17.
Beginning in the spring of 2014, UW-Madison will hold a single commencement ceremony for undergraduates at Camp Randall.
University of Wisconsin commencement ceremonies will be combined into one large ceremony at Camp Randall Stadium next spring, according to UW officials.
University of Wisconsin-Madison Recreational Sports Director John Horn presented preliminary ideas for an estimated $260 million overhaul of three Rec Sports facilities at a Badgers for Recreational Reform meeting Tuesday.
Ruth Litovsky and Ryan Adserias, co-chairs of University of Wisconsin-Madison?s Ad Hoc Diversity Committee, led a discussion Tuesday on innovating diversity plans.
In a University of Wisconsin diversity forum event, participants emphasized the need to increase participation from underrepresented student populations in science, technology, engineering and math fields.
An armed robber got away with an iPhone and a backpack late Tuesday after holding up a woman at gunpoint on a street near campus, according to Madison police.
The 2013 University of Wisconsin-Madison Diversity Forum kicked off Oct. 21 with two keynote speeches in addition to 10 concurrent sessions aiming to improve diversity issues at the university.
A Madison bicyclist was injured Monday when he collided with a Metro Transit bus on the UW-Madison campus.
UW Madison police issued a warning Monday after they say two students nearly drank themselves to death.
The 2013 Diversity Forum kicked off Monday with two keynote speeches in addition to 10 concurrent sessions aiming to improve diversity issues at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
An 18-year-old male was temporarily knocked unconscious after being hit by a Metro Madison bus on University Avenue Monday afternoon.
University of Wisconsin-Madison police sent two underage students to a hospitals detox unit over the weekend after they passed out from drinking too much alcohol, according to a press release.
Next week?s 15th annual campus-wide diversity forum will create a venue for students to provide input on the University of Wisconsin?s next diversity plan.
Stem cell researchers at the University of Wisconsin?s Waisman Center hope their ongoing work will eventually allow them to move into human clinical trials to treat degenerative illnesses such Parkinson?s disease and Down syndrome.
A group of UW-Madison students has asked the city to consider a more stringent local historic district for the area, and the Landmarks Commission has determined such a district meets city standards.
A broader, more inclusive idea of ?diversity? will animate a new initiative to make UW-Madison a dynamic community preparing students for the global society of the 21st century.
Chances are good that if you went to college in the United States after, say, 1975, your campus featured at least one imposing, bunker-like concrete building in the architectural style known as ?Brutalism.?
The University of Wisconsin-Madison?s annual two-day Diversity Forum will take place on Monday and Tuesday from 9:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. in Union South.
University of Wisconsin-Madison?s men?s basketball coach Bo Ryan signed a check for $66,130 to be donated toward Coaches vs. Cancer at his Shooting Down Cancer event Thursday.
Recently, University of Wisconsin Chancellor Rebecca Blank called for an increase in out-of-state tuition at UW. Blank has said the university is underselling its product to students who live outside of Wisconsin.
Three University of Wisconsin professors who feel climate change is a straightforward and undeniable issue that needs to be tackled outlined the implications of global warming on human and environmental health at a panel held Thursday.
Recently, University of Wisconsin Chancellor Rebecca Blank called for an increase in out-of-state tuition at UW. Blank has said the university is underselling its product to students who live outside of Wisconsin.
I spent a month this summer living in a cabin in the Northwoods of Wisconsin.
Such is the life of a forest scientist. I was there to collect data, going into the forest for 10 hours at a time to identify and tally the diameter and height of thousands of teenage trees.
Local government officials met with student organization representatives Wednesday to discuss 2014 county and city funding for local issues, including homelessness and public safety.
